{"id":783,"date":"2013-08-26T09:07:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T09:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=783"},"modified":"2013-08-27T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T12:19:08","slug":"ogden-nash-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"Ogden Nash quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Speech-marks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-487\" style=\"width: 128px; height: 123px;\" alt=\"Speech marks\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mathsmadeelementary.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Speech-marks-150x150.png\" width=\"133\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a>Nash, Ogden (1902 &#8211; 1971), US humorist &amp; poet<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><i><br \/>\nCandy Is dandy But liquor is quicker.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Middle age is when you&#8217;ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.<\/p>\n<p><i>People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I think that I shall never see<br \/>\n<i>a billboard lovely as a tree.<br \/>\n<\/i><i>Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,<br \/>\n<\/i><i>I&#8217;ll never see a tree at all.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nash, Ogden (1902 &#8211; 1971), US humorist &amp; poet Candy Is dandy But liquor is quicker. 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