“Uma porta é o que o cão sempre está do lado contrário.”
A door is what the dog is perpetually on the wrong side of
"The private dining room, and other new verses" - Página 69, de Ogden Nash - Editora Little, Brown, 1953 - 169 páginas
Ogden Nash: 130 citações1 Curtida
Ogden Nash Frases famosas
“Meia-idade é quando já se conheceu tanta gente, que cada pessoa que se conhece lembra alguém.”
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
"Versus" - Página 14, de Ogden Nash - Editora Little, Brown, 1949 - 169 páginas
“A dificuldade com um gatinho é que, eventualmente, ele se torna um gato.”
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat
The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash - Página 72, de Ogden Nash - Editora Little, Brown and company, 1940 - 352 páginas
Ogden Nash: Frases em inglês
"A Word to Husbands" in Marriage Lines (1964)
“Candy
Is Dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.”
Fonte: "Reflections on Ice-Breaking" in Hard Lines (1931); this statement is often misattributed to Dorothy Parker.
"Let's Not Climb the Washington Monument Tonight"
Versus (1949)
“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
When they think that their children are naive.”
"Baby, What Makes the Sky Blue?"
“The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.”
"The Cow".
Fonte: Free Wheeling (1931)
“When called by a panther,
Don't anther.”
"The Panther"
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
“I dreamt that my hair was kempt.
Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.”
"My Dream" in You Can't Get There from Here (1957)
“The giant was hairy, the giant was horrid,
He had one eye in the middle of his forehead.”
"Adventures of Isabel" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/adventures-of-isabel/
Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Watched Example Never Boils
Versus (1949), Possessions are Nine Points of Conversation
Variante: Some people, and it doesn't matter whether they are paupers or millionaires,
Think that anything they have is the best in the world just because it is theirs.
"Tarkington, Thou Should'st Be Living in This Hour"
Versus (1949)
Good Intentions (1942), Seeing Eye to Eye is Believing
"How Now, Sirrah? Oh, Anyhow"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938), I Have It On Good Authority
"First Child . . . Second Child"
Versus (1949)
"Just Keep Quiet and Nobody Will Notice"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)