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When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.

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Ogden Nash
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: May 19
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Screenwriter
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New York
United States
Frederic Ogden Nash
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Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.
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O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.
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In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.
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Don't over-analyze your marriage it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.
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Celery, raw, Develops the jaw
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One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.
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Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our children.
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If some confectioners were willing To let the shape announce the filling, We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs, Bitten into and returned to the box.
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Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.
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Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends
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A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.
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Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.
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Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite. That’s the season to be young, Catching snowflakes on your tongue. Snow is snowy when it’s snowing, I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going.
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The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.
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The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
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One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.
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Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them.
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Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening wassail, wherever good fellows are found Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.
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Good wine needs no bush, And perhaps products that people really want Need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.
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