Ogden Nash cytaty
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Ogden Nash – amerykański poeta.

✵ 19. Sierpień 1902 – 19. Maj 1971
Ogden Nash Fotografia
Ogden Nash: 129   Cytatów 1   Polubienie

Ogden Nash słynne cytaty

„Kawa
się nadawa,
lecz gorzała
szybciej działa.”

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

“Man is a victim of dope
In the incurable form of hope.”

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

“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.”

"The Pelican" (1910) by Dixon Lanier Merritt is another poem often misattributed to Nash.
Misattributed

“I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.”

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

“The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.”

"The Anatomy of Happiness"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

“Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.”

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

“Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
Consider the Empire and Gandhi.”

"I Never Even Suggested It"
Many Long Years Ago (1945)

“It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,
That lays eggs under your skin.”

"Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man" (1959)

“I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.”

"Song of the Open Road" — this poem is a parody of "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer
Many Long Years Ago (1945)

“Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed
the floor.”

"You and Me and P. B. Shelley" http://books.google.com/books?id=zixbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Life+is+not+having+been+told+that+the+man+has+just+waxed+the+floor%22&pg=PA5#v=onepage
Good Intentions (1942)

“She took those pills from the pill concocter,
And Isabel calmly cured the doctor.”

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

“One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.”

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