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Ogden Nash – amerykański poeta.

✵ 19. Sierpień 1902 – 19. Maj 1971
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Ogden Nash: 129 cytatów1 Polubienie

Ogden Nash słynne cytaty

„Psa zdefiniuję jednym słowem:
Pies jest stworzeniem uczuciowem.
Wiem też (z doświadczeń własnych, owszem):
Pies mokry jest najuczuciowszem.”

Ogden Nash

Źródło: Pies, tłum. Stanisław Barańczak

„Kawa
się nadawa,
lecz gorzała
szybciej działa.”

Ogden Nash

Candy
Is dandy;
But liquor
Is quicker. (ang.)
Źródło: Refleksje na temat przełamywania lodów przy nawiązywaniu stosunków towarzyskich, tłum. Stanisław Barańczak

Ogden Nash: Cytaty po angielsku

“I hope of lightning our supply
Will never be exhausted;
You know it's lanterns in the sky
For angels who are losted.”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Watched Example Never Boils

“Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder,
Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives
being embarrassed by our parents and the last part
being embarrassed by our childer.”

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"What I Know About Life"
Versus (1949)

“O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge,
For I wish to be purged of an urge.
It is an irksome urge, compounded of nettles and glue,
And it is turning all my friends back into acquaintances, and all my acquaintances into people who look the other way when I heave into view.”

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Good Intentions (1942), So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much

“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.”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Watched Example Never Boils

“The weather is so very mild
That some would call it warm.
Good gracious, aren't we lucky, child?
Here comes a thunderstorm.”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Watched Example Never Boils

“Naturally I am not pointing a finger at me,
But I must admit that I find Mr. Ickes or any other
speaker far more convincing when I agree with
him than when I disagree.”

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Good Intentions (1942), Seeing Eye to Eye is Believing

“To lave in the wave,
Majestic and chilly,
Tomorrow I crave;
But today it is silly.
It is pleasant to look at the ocean;
Tomorrow, perhaps, I shall swim in it.”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), Pretty Halcyon Days

“Belinda lived in a little white house,
With a little black kitten and a little gray mouse,
And a little yellow dog and a little red wagon,
And a realio, trulio, little pet dragon.”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), The Tale of Custard the Dragon

“Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.)
Is planning a ban on smut.”

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Smoot Smites Smut
Kontekst: Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.)
Is planning a ban on smut.
Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut.
And his reverend occiput.
Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut.,
Grit your molars and do your dut.,
Gird up your l__ns,
Smite h_p and th_gh,
We'll all be Kansas
By and by.

“Hark, hark! the lark
On windswept bark
Freezes against a sky of lead!
Now see him stop,
Take one small hop,
And suddenly keel over dead!”

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The Lark

“Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.:
That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.”

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"England Expects"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

“Any hound a porcupine nudges
Can't be blamed for harboring grudges.
I know one hound that laughed all winter
At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.”

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"The Porcupine" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-porcupine/

“Fear not the thunder, little one.
It's weather, simply weather;
It's friendly giants full of fun
Clapping their hands together.”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Watched Example Never Boils

“Once in a night as black as pitch
Isabel met a wicked old witch.
the witch's face was cross and wrinkled,
The witch's gums with teeth were sprinkled.
Ho, ho, Isabel! the old witch crowed,
I'll turn you into an ugly toad!”

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"Adventures of Isabel" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/adventures-of-isabel/

“Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?”

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"Good-by, Old Year, You Oaf or Why Don't They Pay the Bonus?" in The Primrose Path (1935)

“Their joy needs another woe's to cushion it,
Say a puddle, and someone littler to push in it.
They observe with glee the ballistic results
Of ice cream with spoons for catapults,
And inform the assembly with tears and glares
That everyone's presents are better than theirs.
Oh, little women and little men,
Someday I hope to love you again,
But not till after the party's over,
So give me the key to the doghouse, Rover”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), Children's Party

“Indoors or out, no one relaxes
In March, that month of wind and taxes,
The wind will presently disappear,
The taxes last us all the year.”

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"Thar She Blows"
Versus (1949)

“I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.”

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"A Clean Conscience Never Relaxes"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

“Time is timelessness for you;
Calendars for the human;
What's a year, or thirty, to
Loveliness made woman?”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Lady Thinks She Is Thirty

“How easy for those who do not bulge
To not overindulge!”

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"A Necessary Dirge"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

“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…"”

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Good Intentions (1942), So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much

“We love the kindly wind and hail,
The jolly thunderbolt,
We watch in glee the fairy trail
Of ampere, watt, and volt.”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Watched Example Never Boils

“There is one thing that ought to be taught in all the colleges,
Which is that people ought to be taught not to go around always making apologies.”

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"Just Keep Quiet and Nobody Will Notice"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

“The further through life I drift
The more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.”

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"A Penny Saved Is Impossible"
Good Intentions (1942)

“Whether elected or appointed
He considers himself the Lord's annointed,
And indeed the ointment lingers on him
So thick you can't get your fingers on him.”

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"The Politician"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

“This poem has widely been credited to Nash as a poem with the title "Fleas", but is actually the work of Strickland Gillilan and was originally titled "Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes.”

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It has been dated to at least 1927 http://www.fun-with-words.com/shortest_poem.html, as published in the Mt Rainier Nature News Notes (1 July 1927). <br class="br">Misattributed

“The garden is a raging sea,
The hurricane is snarling;
Oh, happy you and happy me!
Isn't the lightning darling?”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Watched Example Never Boils

“Behold the hippopotamus!
We laugh at how he looks to us,
And yet in moments dank and grim,
I wonder how we look to him.”

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&quot;The Hippopotamus&quot; http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/848.html

“May I join you in the doghouse, Rover?
I wish to retire till the party's over.”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), Children's Party

“Good wine needs no bush,
And perhaps products that people really want need no
hard-sell or soft-sell TV push.
Why not?
Look at pot.”

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"Most Doctors Recommend or Yours For Fast Fast Fast Relief" in The Old Dog Barks Backwards (1972)