Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty.
Ogden Nash
Miranda in Miranda's sight is ...
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I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.
Ogden Nash
But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.
Ogden Nash
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
Ogden Nash
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
Ogden Nash
Abracadabra, thus we learn
The more you create, the less you earn.
The less you earn, the more you're given,
The less you lead, the more you're driven,
The more destroyed, the more they feed,
The more you pay, the more they need,
The more you earn, the less you keep,
And now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray the Lord my soul to take
If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.
Ogden Nash
