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Ogden Nash
American
Poet
About the author
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Life
#Living
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,
American
Poet
#Hope
#Home
#Night
#Age
#Middle age
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,
American
Poet
#People
#Being
#Friends
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Children
#Family
#Men
#Women
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,
American
Poet
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Wrong
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Liquor
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,
American
Poet
#Life
#Money
#Funny
#Buying
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Nothing
#Children
#Parents
Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Hurt
Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Mind
Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Wrong
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Remorse
Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#New year
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Happiness
I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
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,
American
Poet
#Right
#Wrong
#News
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,
American
Poet
#Man
#Woman
#Idea
#Sex
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Hope
#Dogs
#Tongue
#Mothers
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,
American
Poet
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Children
#Parents
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#People
#Work
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,
American
Poet
#Want
#People
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Children
#Parents
#Giving
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Remorse
#Man
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#People
#Age
#Middle age
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#People
#Marriage
#Alliance
Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Men
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,
American
Poet
#Want
#Work
#Money
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,
American
Poet
#Right
#Love
#Wrong
#Marriage
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Life
#Man
Women would rather be right than reasonable.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Right
#Women
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Progress
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Remorse
#Mind
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Fun
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,
American
Poet
#Night
#Regret
#Bed
The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#End
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Control
#Happiness
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#People
#Sin
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Trouble
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,
American
Poet
#Conscience
#Happiness
Too clever is dumb.
Ogden Nash,
American
Poet
#Dumb