Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.
Ogden NashRead
Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
Interpretation
This quote humorously critiques the nature of basketball by suggesting its absurdity if played with giraffes.
Ogden Nash uses humor and satire to highlight the inherent absurdity of basketball as a sport. By jokingly suggesting that the game would be more suitable if baskets were set at an impossible height and giraffes were involved, he invites the reader to reflect on the sometimes ridiculous aspects of sports culture and the arbitrary standards we accept in competitive games.
In practice
During a light-hearted sports discussion at a party.
Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.
I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.
I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.
Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening wassail, wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
I'm a precrastinator. Yes, that's an actual term. You know that panic you feel a few hours before a big deadline when you haven't done anything yet? I just feel that a few months ahead of time.
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity
Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
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