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I was born a jackdaw why should I try to be an owl?
Ogden Nash
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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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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.
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Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it.
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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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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.
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The doctor gets you when you're born, The preacher, when you marry, And the lawyer lurks with costly clerks If too much on you carry. Professional men, they have no cares Whatever happens, they get theirs.
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In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.
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The only way I can distinguish proper from improper fractions is by their actions
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And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.
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Professional men, they have no cares whatever happens, they get theirs.
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Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.
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Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.
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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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A bit of talcum Is always walcum.
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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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Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it.
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I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.
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