Ogden Nash Famous Quotes
"To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up."
"An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks."
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
"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."
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
"If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work."
"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."
"Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave."
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
"Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long."
Ogden Nash Quotations
"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."
Maya Angelou
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein
"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
Aristotle
Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't.
Erica Jong
"Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings."
Homer
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw
"...Him that I love, I wish to be free--even from me."
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
"We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language."
Oscar Wilde
"Lat., Now I know what love is."
Virgil
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
G K Chesterton