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OGDEN NASH
American poet
(1902 - 1971)
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
      - [Doors]

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
      - [Family]

Bankers are just like anybody else, except richer.
      - [Bankers]

God in his wisdom made the fly and then forgot to tell us why.
      - [God]

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
      - [Work]

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
      - [Life]

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
      - [Marriage]

Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.
      - [Agreement]

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
      - [Children]

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
      - [Remorse]

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

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
      - [Work]

Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
      - [Professionals]

Progress may have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
      - [Progress]

They take the paper and they read the headlines, so they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread lines, and they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
      - [Charity]

To keep your marriage brimming,
  With love in the loving cup,
    Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
      Whenever you're right, shut up.
      - [Matrimony]

Too clever is dumb.
      - [Cleverness]

Women would rather be right than reasonable.
      - [Right]

You can take it as understood that your luck changes only if it's good.
      - [Luck]

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