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The Face Is Familiar compiles a selection of Ogden Nash's verse, showcasing his distinctive humor and clever wordplay. Nash's poetry often explores everyday situations with a light-hearted and clever twist, making this collection a delightful read for fans of wit and wordplay.
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“So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.”
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“Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.”
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“Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.”
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“Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.”
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“People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when ... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.”
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“Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how.”
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“The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.”
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“I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face.”
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“The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.”
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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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“The old men know when an old man dies.”
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“Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.”
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“How Sunday into Monday melts!”
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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.”
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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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“If called by a panther, don't anther.”
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“Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.”
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“The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.”
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“We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.”
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“So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf,
Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.”
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“The moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but if
some kind of sin you must be pursuing,
Well, remember to do it by doing rather than by not doing.”
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“It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,
That lays eggs under your skin.”
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“It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators
all, and I recommend to you this moral:
In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.”
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“A lady is known by the product she endorses.”
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“In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.”
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“The noblest lord is ushered in By the practicing physician, And the humblest lout is ushered out By a certified mortician. And in between, they find their foyers Alive with summonses from lawyers.”
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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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“You can take it as understood,
That your luck changes only if it's good.”
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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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“I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.”
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“The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon.
Let others say his heart is big,
I think it stupid of the Pig.”
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“Women would rather be right than reasonable.”
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“One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.”
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“Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.”
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“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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“Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.”
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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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“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.”
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“Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money?”
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“Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker.”
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“Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.”
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“The dog is man's best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs underneath.”
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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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“Abracadabra, thus we learn
The more you create, the less you earn.
The less you earn, the more you're given,
The less you lead, the more you're driven,
The more destroyed, the more they feed,
The more you pay, the more they need,
The more you earn, the less you keep,
And now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray the Lord my soul to take
If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.”
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