Ogden Nash Quotes
+5To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the wedding cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
+5Candy Is dandy, But liquor Is quicker.
- Ogden Nash
+3Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore, And that’s what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
+3When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
- Ogden Nash
+3A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
- Ogden Nash
+3Nothing there but basketball, a game which won’t be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
- Ogden Nash
+1Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn’t have missed it.
- Ogden Nash
+1Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant’s outnumber your friends.
- Ogden Nash
+1Middle 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
+1Purity is obscurity.
- Ogden Nash
+1People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
- Ogden Nash
+1Poets aren’t very useful Because they aren’t consumeful or very produceful.
- Ogden Nash
+1Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
- Ogden Nash
+1You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it’s good.
- Ogden Nash
+1Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.
- Ogden Nash
+1There 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
+1God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.
- Ogden Nash
+1My garden will never make me famous, I’m a horticultural ignoramus.
- Ogden Nash
+1A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
- Ogden Nash
+1The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk.
- Ogden Nash
+1Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
- Ogden Nash
+1Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.
- Ogden Nash
+1Progress might have been all right once, but it’s gone on too long.
- Ogden Nash
+1The Trouble with a kitten is That Eventually it becomes a Cat
- Ogden Nash
0If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.
- Ogden Nash
0Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
- Ogden Nash
