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Summary
Ogden Nash was a famous Poet from USA, who lived between August 19, 1902 and May 19, 1971. He/she became 68 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac leo, who is known for Ruling, Warmth, Generosity, Faithful, Initiative.
Our collection contains 37 quotes who is written / told by Ogden, under the main topic
Work .
Related authors: Oliver Herford (Author)
37 Famous quotes by Ogden Nash
"The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat"
"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"
"Happiness is having a scratch for every itch"
"Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?"
"Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is"
"Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?"
"Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you"
"Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for"
"Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?"
"I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it"
"I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers"
"I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm"
"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"
"I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine"
"To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up"
"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"
"The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control"
"Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them"
"The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin"
"Women would rather be right than reasonable"
"Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind"
"Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long"
"Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs"
"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up"
"People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it"
"Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore"
"One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence"
"Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive"
"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else"
"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"
"Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker"
"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold"
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of"
"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them"
"Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor"
"If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work"
"I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance"
