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Type: Poet Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes Date of Birth: August 19, 1902 Date of Death: May 19, 1971 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Ogden Nash Related Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Walt Whitman Bryant H. McGill Carl Sandburg James Russell Lowell T. S. Eliot |
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ogden Nash A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. Ogden Nash Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. Ogden Nash Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money? Ogden Nash Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. Ogden Nash Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. Ogden Nash Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you. Ogden Nash Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early? Ogden Nash Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. Ogden Nash Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is. Ogden Nash Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals? Ogden Nash Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. Ogden Nash 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. Ogden Nash I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm. Ogden Nash I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers. Ogden Nash I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. Ogden Nash I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. Ogden Nash I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance. Ogden Nash If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work. Ogden Nash Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. Ogden Nash Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. Ogden Nash Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. Ogden Nash 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. Ogden Nash Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. Ogden Nash Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive. Ogden Nash One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence. Ogden Nash Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. Ogden Nash People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it. Ogden Nash People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. Ogden Nash Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs. Ogden Nash Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. Ogden Nash Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind. Ogden Nash Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. Ogden Nash The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. Ogden Nash The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk. Ogden Nash The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. Ogden Nash The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin. Ogden Nash The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat. Ogden Nash There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends. Ogden Nash There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. Ogden Nash To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. Ogden Nash Too clever is dumb. Ogden Nash Women would rather be right than reasonable. Ogden Nash |
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