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
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.
Interpretation
The quote humorously expresses a desire for a carefree life, but acknowledges the necessity of work.
Ogden Nash's quote reflects the tension between a desire for a laid-back, carefree existence and the unavoidable responsibilities of life. He humorously suggests that while he would prefer to live with indifference and lightheartedness, the practical need to earn a living often complicates this ideal, prompting a sense of annoyance or 'nuisance.'
In practice
During a light-hearted discussion about work-life balance.
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.
I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.
I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.
I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #β telephone .
Eisenhower admitted that the budget can't be balanced and McCarthy said the communists are taking over. You don't know what to worry about these days - whether the country will be overthrown or overdrawn.
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
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