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You can take it as understood that your luck changes only if it's good. (Ogden Nash)
Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo. View quote
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Senescence begins And middle age ends, The day your descendents, Outnumber your friends. View quote
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Any kiddies in school can love like a fool, But hating, my boy, is an art. View quote
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If you are really Master of your Fate, It shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate. View quote
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Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker. View quote
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Here lies my past. Good-bye I have kissed it Thank you, kids. I wouldn't have missed it. View quote
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A bit of talcum; Is always walcum. View quote
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Some people's money is merited; And other people's is inherited. View quote
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There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but Im afraid its heading in the wrong direction. View quote
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Don't over-analyze your marriage it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing. (Ogden Nash)
Home is heaven and orgies are vile; But you need an orgy, once in a while. View quote
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When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn; So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born. View quote
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I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder. View quote
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Silly girl, silver girl, Draw the mirror toward you; Time who makes the years to whirl Adorned as he adored you. View quote
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The camel has a single hump; The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around. I'm never sure. Are you. View quote
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Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer. View quote
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Someone invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumber, Ringing wrong but similar numbers. View quote
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Beneath this slab; John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road. View quote
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The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Gives us ham and pork and Bacon. Let others think his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig. View quote
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How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the trick How did I get so old so quick. (Ogden Nash)
The bear said, Isabel, glad to meet you, How do, Isabel, now I'll eat you! Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry. Isabel didn't scream or scurry. She washed her hands, and she straightened her hair up, Then Isabel quietly ate the bear up. View quote
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There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze, And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees, And they certainly annoy each other, But they certainly enjoy each other, Yes, they pretend to flout each other, But they couldn't do without each other... View quote
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People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it, And I wish I could afford to gather all such people into a gloomy castle on the Danube and hire half a dozen capable Draculas to haunt it. I dont' mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, But I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it. View quote
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