Ogden Nash

Ogden Nash (1902–1971), American poet

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Verified

Attributed

• "I cannot help mentioning that the door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly."

• "One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it . . . Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it."

• I think that I shall never see
  A billboard lovely as a tree.
  Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
  I'll never see a tree at all.
  • Seemingly from "Verses From 1929 On" published in 1961 (published in England as "Collected Verse from 1929 On")

• The turtle trapped 'twixt plated decks
  Doth practically conceal its sex
  I think it clever of the turtle
  In such a fix to be so fertile.

• Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

• God in his wisdom made the fly
  And then forgot to tell us why.

• Your mom goes to college.

Misattributed

• A wonderful bird is a pelican,
  His bill will hold more than his belican.
  He can take in his beak
  Food enough for a week;
  But I'm damned if I see how the helican.
  • Actually from "The Pelican" by Dixon Lanier Merrith
• What's a fish without an eye? --A FSHHHHH! :)

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