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Inspirational Quotes by Ogden Nash
- God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.
- Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
- Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
- I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.
- The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
- My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.
- Women would rather be right than reasonable.
- One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
- Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.
- Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer
- Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
- Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
- Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money?
- A dog's best friend is his illiteracy.
- Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
- Time is like the ocean, always there, always different.
- Too much Chablis can make you whablis.
- I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.
- In the world of mules there are no rules.
- How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!
- Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.
- At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jog I joggle.
- Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.
- Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento