Showing posts with label Ogden Nash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ogden Nash. Show all posts

Friday, September 10, 2010

Working Hard to Make Enough You Don't Have Work? And You Get Old Doing It!

Egypt scenes - Cairo, workingImage by Xavier Fargas via FlickrConscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbor. – Saint Augustine




So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell. – anonymous



Next to Death, the most infallible remedy for a guilty conscience is success. – Edmund Fuller.



Work is much more fun than fun. – Noel Coward



If you don’t want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work. – Ogden Nash



Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top. – J.C. Penney



Hard work is often an accumulation of the easy things you didn’t do when you should have. - anonymous




Thursday, January 14, 2010

That is the Great Fallacy: the Wisdom of Old Men

American author Ernest Hemingway with Pauline,...Image via Wikipedia

If you’ve never seen a real, fully developed look of disgust, just tell your son how you conducted yourself when you were a boy. – Frank McKinney

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. – Oscar Wilde

I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. – Rodney Dangerfield

Middle age: When you’re sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you. – Ogden Nash

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. – T.S. Eliot

Work is the basis of living. I’ll never retire. A man’ll rust out quicker than he’ll wear out. – Colonel Harland Sanders

That is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise, they grow careful. – Ernest Hemingway


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Thursday, December 24, 2009

I’m a Deeply Superficial Person

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The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position. – Leo Buscaglia

Man is what he believes. – Anton Chekhov

I’m a deeply superficial person. – Andy Warhol

In modern society the opposite of courage is not cowardice; it is conformity. – Rollo May

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. – Lewis Mumford

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. – Ogden Nash

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. – P.J. O’Rourke


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