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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
-- Ogden Nash


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

-- Ogden Nash


I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern
unstoned.
-- Ogden Nash, "Everybody's Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"


Love is a word that is constantly heard,
Hate is a word that is not.
Love, I am told, is more precious than gold.
Love, I have read, is hot.
But hate is the verb that to me is superb,
And Love but a drug on the mart.
Any kiddie in school can love like a fool,
But Hating, my boy, is an Art.

-- Ogden Nash


I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.

-- Ogden Nash


Parsley
is gharsley.
-- Ogden Nash


The trouble with a kitten is that
When it grows up, it's always a cat

-- Ogden Nash.


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

-- Ogden Nash


I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- 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.
-- Ogden Nash


Too clever is dumb.

-- Ogden Nash


The Rabbits The Cow
Here is a verse about rabbits The cow is of the bovine ilk;
That doesn't mention their habits. One end is moo, the other, milk.
-- Ogden Nash


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


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


One thing about the past.
It's likely to last.
-- Ogden Nash


The Preacher, the Politician, the Teacher,
Were each of them once a kiddie.
A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature.
Do I want one? God Forbiddie!

-- Ogden Nash


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

-- Ogden Nash


Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy,
But it's very funny -- did you ever try buying them without money?
-- Ogden Nash


Too clever is dumb.
-- Ogden Nash


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

-- Ogden Nash


Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy,
But it's very funny -- did you ever try buying them without money?
-- 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.

-- Ogden Nash


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


The rhino is a homely beast,
For human eyes he's not a feast.
Farewell, farewell, you old rhinoceros,
I'll stare at something less prepoceros.

-- Ogden Nash


The camel has a single hump;
The dromedary two;
Or else the other way around.
I'm never sure. Are you?
-- Ogden Nash


Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

-- Ogden Nash


The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
Gives us ham and pork and Bacon.
Let others think his heart is big,
I think it stupid of the Pig.

-- Ogden Nash


The camel has a single hump;
The dromedary two;
Or else the other way around.
I'm never sure. Are you?

-- Ogden Nash


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

-- Ogden Nash


The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
Gives us ham and pork and Bacon.
Let others think his heart is big,
I think it stupid of the Pig.
-- Ogden Nash