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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Ogden Nash
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Ogden Nash
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: May 19
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Frederic Ogden Nash
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I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.
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Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility?
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Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.
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Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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Husbands are things that wives have to get used to putting up with. And with whom they breakfast with and sup with. They interfere with the discipline of nurseries, And forget anniversaries, And when they have been particularly remiss, They think they can cure everything with a great big kiss.
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There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.
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The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.
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The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.
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You can take it as understood, That your luck changes only if it's good.
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There was a young man of Herne Bay who was making some fireworks one day: but he dropped his cigar in the gunpowder jar. There was a young man of Herne Bay.
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A bit of talcum Is always walcum.
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Smallpox is natural vaccine ain't.
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When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
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Love is a word that is constantly heard, Hate is a word that is not. Love, I am told, is more precious than gold. Love, I have read, is hot. But hate is the verb that to me is superb, And Love but a drug on the mart. Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today.
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Snow is all right while it is snowing it is like inebriation because it is very pleasing when it is coming, but very unpleasing when it is going.
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Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.
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The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two Or else the other way around I'm never sure. Are you?
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Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer
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