"Basketball, a game which won't be fit for……" — Ogden Nash
"Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo."
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160 Quotes by Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash has 160 quotes on this site.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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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…
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God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.
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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
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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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A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your…
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Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't…
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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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More Basket Quotes
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Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that…
— Ernie Banks
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If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
— Tony Benn
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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams,…
— John Berger
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You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.
— Kate Bosworth
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I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got…
— Jerry Bruckheimer
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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches…
— Andrew Carnegie
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The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun,…
— Francois Magendie
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If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be…
— Dwight L. Moody
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As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention,…
— William Shakespeare
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Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and…
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size…
— Al McGuire
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