Ogden Nash

Quote: A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: 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]

Quote: The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge! [Ogden Nash]

Quote: Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: 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]

Quote: Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: Candy, is dandy, but Liquor, is quicker. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. [Ogden Nash]

Quote: 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]

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