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#64113 04/07/02 10:08 PM
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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

That's a favourite of mine also -- and can be attributed to Ogden Nash, I believe.

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Oh my god! Another Ogden Nash fan!
[racing, along with W'ON, to buy plane tickets to OZ -e]


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Dear hev: Documentation of your assertion.

.Aphorisms, Quotations, & Wisecracks--Aging
... of someone else and usually is.--Ogden Nash (1902-1971). ... You're only young once,
but you can be immature forever.--John Greier. ...
http://littlecalamity.tripod.com/Quotes/Aging.html
More Results From: littlecalamity.tripod.com



#64116 04/07/02 11:24 PM
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How about...
"I wouldn't belong to a club that had someone like me as a member?" -Milton Berle or Groucho Marx?
Don't know how that fits in but I was feeling frisky.


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PREFACE TO THE PAST

by Ogden Nash

Time all of a sudden tightens the tether,
And the outspread years are drawn together.
How confusing the beam's from memory's lamp are;
One day a bachelor, the next a grampa.
What is the secret of the trick?
How did I get so old so quick?
Perhaps I can find by consulting the files
How step after step added up to miles.
I was sauntering along, my business minding,
When suddenly struck by affection blinding.
Which led to my being a parent nervous
Before they invented the diaper service.
I found myself in a novel pose,
Counting infant fingers and toes.
I tried to be as wise as Diogenes
In the rearing of my too little progenies,
But just as I hit upon wisdom's essence
They changed from infants to adolescents.
I stood my ground, being fairly sure
That one of these days they must mature.
So when I was properly humbled and harried,
They did mature, and immediately married.
Now I'm counting, the cycle being complete,
The toes on my children's children's feet,
Here lies my past, good-by I have kissed it;
Thank you, kids, I wouldn't have missed it.

© 1950 by Ogden Nash


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Max, other factors are usually more influential, and I doubt very much that the choice is made, either way, by virtue of a poem.

An W'ON, given that I became an empty-nester a few months ago, I enjoyed that poem with a particular poignancy. Thank you.


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The only part of my life I would really like to be able to live through again is the time when my kids were small.


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Dear hev: Documentation of your assertion.

Hmmm, I looked up your site Dr Bill, and it attributes the quote to John Greier, as do many other quote sites. I've bought magnets (for friends that are getting older, but not more mature ) that have this quote attributed to Ogden Nash.

Can anyone clarify this?

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Hev, I love Nash but more importantly, was a Nash fiend for many of my formative years, and thus know his poems reasonably thoroughly. I don't recall that line from his work; of course that's not dispositive.

Other than that all I know is what I found from google, which duplicates what dr. bill found.



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