Ogden Nash Quotes

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Ogden Nash was an American poet known for his witty and humorous poetry. His works are characterized by their clever wordplay and satire, and have been beloved by readers.

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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.”

People Humans Sleep Human Nature Ought Bed Arise Sheep Legislature

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“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.”

People Knows Men Looks Different Eye Dies Wonder Watches Aging Old Man Different Peoples Mourn

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face.”

People Long Care Faces Criticism Don't Care I Don't Care Unkind

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“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.”

People Loss Food Cooking Fishes Mood Eggs Culinary Sauce Staples

Author:Ogden Nash

“I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.”

People Believe I Believe

Book:Good intentions

Source: Good intentions

“Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.”

People Money

Book:Happy Days

Source: Happy Days

“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.”

People Enough Literature Results Lord Figures Speech Gold Soldier Dear Fancy Testament Purple Old Testament Dressed Up Byron Figures Of Speech Dear Me

Book:The primrose path

Source: The primrose path

“Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.”

“The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.”

People Should Inspiration Sin

Author:Ogden Nash

“Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.”

People Games Return Fit Basketball Baskets Zoos Giraffe Funny Basketball

Author:Ogden Nash

“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.”

People Want Needs Looks Hard Tvs Products Humorous Sells Wine Advertising Why Not Pot Adverts Good Wine

Author:Ogden Nash

“People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.”

People Want Inspirational Funny Havens Witty

Book:Happy Days

Source: Happy Days

“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.”

People Funny Sitting Standing Paid Sarcasm Sitting Down Standing Alone Funny Work

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze, And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees.”

People Kind Two Kindness Blow Breeze

Author:Ogden Nash

About the Author

Born: August 19, 1902
Died: March 19, 1971
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 208

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