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No, you never get any fun Out of the things you haven't done.

No, you never get any fun Out of the things you haven't done.

Ogden Nash
Children, Fun, Done
Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!

Ogden Nash
Children, Dark, Ducks

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.

Ogden Nash
Family, Children, War
1940 The Face Is Familiar,'Baby, What Makes the Sky Blue'.

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 children.

Ogden Nash
Children, Parent, Lasts
"What I Know About Life". "Versus". Book by Ogden Nash, 1949.

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

Ogden Nash
Family, Children, Parenting
"Happy Days". Book by Ogden Nash, 1933.

The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!

Ogden Nash
Teacher, Children, Want

The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.

Ogden Nash
Children, Fire, Waiting
Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.

Ogden Nash
Mother, Children, Father
Ogden Nash (1936). “The bad parents' garden of verse”

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