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Don't Cry Darling, It's Blood All Right. (Ogden Nash)
Oh, Night will not see thirty again, Yet soft her wing, Miranda; Pick up your glass and tell me, then-- How old is Spring, Miranda? View quote
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Miranda in Miranda's sight Is old and gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty. View quote
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The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder. View quote
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Some tortures are physical and some are mental, but the one that's both is dental. View quote
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The pirate gaped at Belinda's dragon, And gulped some grog from his pocket flagon, He fired two bullets, but they didn't hit, And Custard gobbled him, every bit. View quote
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When you are wrong, admit it. When you are right, be quiet. View quote
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Tonight's December thirty-first, Something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, Like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year! View quote
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When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window. ~ Ogden Nash. View quote
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I hope of lightning our supply Will never be exhausted; You know it's lanterns in the sky For angels who are losted. View quote
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Oh, than to enjoy a storm like this There's nothing I would rather, Don't dive between the blankets, Miss! Or else leave room for Father. (Ogden Nash)
The weather is so very mild That some would call it warm. Good gracious, aren't we lucky, child? Here comes a thunderstorm. View quote
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Fear not the thunder, little one. It's weather, simply weather; It's friendly giants full of fun Clapping their hands together. View quote
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It is an indication that my mental buttery is butterless and my mental larder lardless, And it consists not of "Stop me if you've heard this one," but of "I know you've heard this one because I told it to you myself, but I'm going to tell it to you again regardless..." View quote
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May I join you in the doghouse, Rover? I wish to retire till the party's over. View quote
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I can't say that I feel particularly one way or the other towards bell-boy, But I do admit that I haven't much use for the it's-just-as-well boys, The cheery souls who drop around after every catastrophe and think they are taking the curse off By telling you about somebody who is even worse off. No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, Their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed. View quote
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When people reject a truth or an untruth it is not because it is a truth or an untruth that they reject it. No, if it isn't in accord with their beliefs in the first place they simply say, "Nothing doing," and refuse to inspect it. View quote
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Oh, things are frequently what they seem, And this is wisdom's crown: Only the game fish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down. View quote
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And I have no desire to get ugly, But 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. View quote
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Now the name of the little black kitten was Ink, And the little gray mouse, she called him Blink, And the little yellow dog was sharp as Mustard, But the dragon was a coward, and she called him Custard. View quote
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. (Ogden Nash)
How pleasant to sit on the beach, On the beach, on the sand, in the sun, With ocean galore within reach, And nothing at all to be done!. View quote
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Where there is a monster, there is a miracle. View quote
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I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it. View quote
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The giant was hairy, the giant was horrid, He had one eye in the middle of his forehead. View quote
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