"A bird in the open never looks Like……" — Ogden Nash
"A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage."
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160 Quotes by Ogden Nash
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God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.
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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
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Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
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Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we…
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Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed…
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Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the…
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