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Neath tile or thatch That man is rich Who has a scratch For every itch.

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Ogden Nash
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: May 19
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New York
United States
Frederic Ogden Nash
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All that glitters is sold as gold.
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Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.
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But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them, With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to people they say Oh yes, they're the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.
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In the world of mules there are no rules.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and combat Over everything debatable and combatable Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
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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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Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.
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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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Celery, raw, Develops the jaw
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Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
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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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Don't Cry Darling, It's Blood All Right
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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 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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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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Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup I So, presently, must I.
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Some hate broccoli, some hate bacon I hate having my picture taken. How can your family claim to love you And then demand a picture of you?
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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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