"Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is……" — Ogden Nash
"Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters."
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160 Quotes by Ogden Nash
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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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