"I'd rather be a great bad poet than…" — Ogden Nash
"I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet."
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160 Quotes by Ogden Nash
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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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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
— Julian Assange
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Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen…
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I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -…
— Richard Armitage
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
— Frank Abagnale
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
— David Arquette
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
— Isaac Asimov
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
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