"The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can……" — Ogden Nash
"The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire."
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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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By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really…
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I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a…
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It…
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So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to…
— Lee Child
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There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land…
— John Henrik Clarke
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I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It…
— Adolf Hitler
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Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet.
— Diane Ackerman
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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead…
— John Updike
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Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing…
— Cheryl Strayed
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The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to…
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