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"18 Ogden Nash Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 19 August 1902. Died: 19 May 1971 | Poet |

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Happy Ignore Invent Children
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

Age Else Every Many
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

Bed Bodies Bundle Early
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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Alliance Birthdays Forgets Marriage
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Children Created Happy Ignore
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

Biting Feed Ought Remorse
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Animal Children Cold Common
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To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Admit Cup Keep Love
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People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

Fond People Really Telling
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

Children Naive Parents Tangled
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
Rather Reasonable Right Than
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

Early Late Maturing Mind
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Beyond Control Exciting Forces
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If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Earn Enough Money Want
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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

About Acquiring Debts Fun
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

Buy Buying Certainly Ever
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

Because Been Era Get
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Dog Door Perpetually Side
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Ogden Nash Quotes & Sayings