Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

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About Ogden Nash

Portrait of Ogden Nash

Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times to be the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.

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Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.

The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.

It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things—a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.

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Don't you find it odd that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

—Ethan Hawke in The Hottest State

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

—Tom Stoppard

I don't know how I got to be thirty. I don't feel thirty, the way I felt so definitely nine, and thirteen, and twenty-one.

—Rachel Khong in Vitamin

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What I know at sixty I knew at twenty. Forty years of superfluous verification.

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