Ogden Nash

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"Song of the Open Road:<BR>I think that I shall never see<BR>a billboard lovely as a tree.<BR>Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,<BR>I'll never see a tree at all."

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"Happiness is having a scratch for every itch."

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"An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks."

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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."

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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?"

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"Celery, raw,<BR>Develops the jaw,<BR>But celery, stewed,<BR>Is more easily chewed."

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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?"

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"Parsley is gharsley."

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

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"Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long."

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"Family: A unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."

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"Too clever is dumb."

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"Samson Agonistes:<BR>I test my bath before I sit,<BR>And I'm always moved to wonderment<BR>That what chills the finger not a bit<BR>Is so frigid upon the fundament."

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"To keep your marriage brimming,<BR>With love in the loving cup,<BR>Whenever you're wrong, admit it;<BR>Whenever you're right, shut up."

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"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."

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"Happiness is having a scratch for every itch."

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

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

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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."

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"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."

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"The Parent:<BR>Children aren't happy without something to ignore,<BR>And that's what parents were created for."

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"Too clever is dumb."

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

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"Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for."

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"The Germ<BR>A mighty creature is the germ,<BR>Though smaller than a pachyderm.<BR>His customary dwelling place<BR>Is deep within the human race.<BR>His childish pride he often pleases<BR>By giving people strange diseases.<BR>Do you, my poppet, feel infirm?<BR>You probably contain a germ."

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