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I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.


Darius Ogden Mills

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OGDEN NASH A little incompatibility is the spice of life, as long as he has income and she is pattable.
OGDEN NASH A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle...
OGDEN NASH America has run the world for at least the past 50 years, and when you're at the top that long, you ...
FRANK OGDEN Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..
OGDEN NASH Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate ...
OGDEN NASH A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
OGDEN NASH You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good.
OGDEN NASH Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
OGDEN NASH They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard ...
OGDEN NASH Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
OGDEN NASH He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentenc...
OGDEN NASH I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she wa...
OGDEN NASH He without benefit of scruples
His fun and money soon quadruples.
OGDEN NASH Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
OGDEN NASH Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.
OGDEN NASH The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.
OGDEN NASH Candy, is dandy, but Liquor, is quicker.
OGDEN NASH Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell...
OGDEN NASH I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
OGDEN NASH There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a cl...
OGDEN NASH They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard ...
OGDEN NASH A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
OGDEN NASH No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and ...
OGDEN NASH Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.
OGDEN NASH A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the co...
OGDEN NASH Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
OGDEN NASH And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, onl...
OGDEN NASH I use many props. The props act as cue cards reminding me of what to say next.
TOM OGDEN I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fa...
OGDEN NASH Some primal termite knocked on wood;
and tasted it, and found it good.
That is why your Cousin...
OGDEN NASH Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's ...
OGDEN NASH I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so...
OGDEN NASH Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
OGDEN NASH How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!
OGDEN NASH If some confectioners were willing
To let the shape announce the filling,
We'd encounter fewer...
OGDEN NASH Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disap...
OGDEN NASH Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
OGDEN NASH Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman wh...
OGDEN NASH