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„Deti nie sú šťastné, keď nemajú čo ignorovať. A preto boli stvorení rodičia.“

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.
Happy Days (Šťastné dni), 1933
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„Najvzrušujúcejšie šťastie je šťastie vytvárané silami mimo tvoju kontrolu.“

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„Vždy sa žeňte skoro ráno. Aspoň ak to nebude fungovať, nebudete mať premárnený celý deň.“

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„Dvere sú to, na čoho nesprávnej strane sa neustále nachádza pes.“

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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
"A Dog's Best Friend Is His Illiteracy" in The Private Dining Room ("Najlepší psov priateľ je jeho nevzdelanosť" z Súkromná jedáleň), 1953
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Ogden Nash: Citáty v angličtine

“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.”

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"Look for the Silver Lining"
Happy Days (1933)

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

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"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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy,
You've had about seven hours' sleep since Friday,
No wonder you feel that lost sensation;
You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.”

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"We'll All Feel Better By Wednesday"
Versus (1949)

“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.”

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"When You Say That, Smile", as quoted in Saturday Evening Post, 16 September 1933

“Belinda was as brave as a barrel full of bears,
And Ink and Blink chased lions down the stairs,
Mustard was as brave as a tiger in a rage,
But Custard cried for a nice safe cage.”

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

“Whales have calves,
Cats have kittens
Bears have Cubs,
Bats have bittens,
Swans have cygnets,
Seals have puppies,
But guppies just have little guppies.”

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"The Guppy"
Versus (1949)

“Camped on a tropic riverside,
One day he missed his loving bride.
She had, the guide informed him later,
Been eaten by an alligator.
Professor Twist could not but smile.
"You mean," he said, "a crocodile."”

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

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

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

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

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

“It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators
all, and I recommend to you this moral:
In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.”

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

“Being a father
Is quite a bother,
But I like it, rather.”

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"Soliloquy in Circles"
Versus (1949)

“I think that comparisons are truly odious, I do not approve of this constant proud or envious to-do;
And furthermore, dear friends, I think that you and yours are delightful and I also think that me and mine are delightful too.”

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Versus (1949), Possessions are Nine Points of Conversation

“Leave the earth to the strong and athletic,
And the sea to adventure upon.
But the sun and the sand
No contractor can copy;
We lie in the land
Of the lotus and poppy;
We vegetate, calm and aesthetic,
On the beach, on the sand, in the sun.”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), Pretty Halcyon Days

“Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.”

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

“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.”

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"The Turtle"
Many Long Years Ago (1945)

“Miranda in Miranda's sight
Is old and gray and dirty;
Twenty-nine she was last night;
This morning she is thirty.”

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

“I've earned repose to heal the ravages
Of these angelic-looking savages.
Oh, progeny playing by itself
Is a lonely little elf,
But progeny in roistering batches
Would drive St. francis from here to Natchez.”

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

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

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

“Senator Smoot is an institute
Not to be bribed with pelf;
He guards our homes from erotic tomes
By reading them all himself.”

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Smoot Smites Smut

“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?”

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

“And I also say Pooh for sweetness and light,
And if you want to get the most out of life, why the thing to do is to be a gossiper by day and gossipee by night.”

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I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938), I Have It On Good Authority

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

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

“The song of canaries
Never varies,
And when they're moulting
They're pretty revolting.”

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"The Canary"
Free Wheeling (1931)

“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.”

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"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.”

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"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)