Ogden Nash Quotes

• “Tonight’s December thirty-first,
  Something is about to burst.
  The clock is crouching, dark and small,
  Like a time bomb in the hall.
  Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
  Duck! Here comes another year!”

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• “Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
  And that's what parents were created for.”

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• “A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.”

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• “To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.”

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• “You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.”

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• “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.”

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• “Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental.”

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• “LIFE BEGINS AT THE END OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE”

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• “I have an idea that the phrase “weaker sex” was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.”

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• “Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.”

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• “The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.”

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• “Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.”

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• “If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.”

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• “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.”

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• “Certainly there are things in life that money can’t buy, but it’s very funny –
  Did you ever try buying them without money.”

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• “A jolly young fellow from Yuma
  Told an elephant joke to a puma;
  now his skeleton lies
  beneath hot western skies-
  the puma had no sense of huma”

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• “Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.”

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• “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.”

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• “Come live with me and be my love
  And we will all the pleasures prove
  Of a marriage conducted with economy
  In the Twentieth Century Anno Donomy.
  We’ll live in a dear little walk-up flat
  With practically room to swing a cat
  And a potted cactus to give it hauteur
  And a bathtub equipped with dark brown water.
  We’ll eat, without undue discouragement,
  Foods low in cost but high in nouragement
  And quaff with pleasure, while chatting wittily,
  The peculiar wine of Little Italy.
  We’ll remind each other it’s smart to be thrifty
  And buy our clothes for something-fifty.
  We’ll bus for miles on holidays
  For seas at depressing matinees,
  And every Sunday we’ll have a lark
  And take a walk in Central Park.
  And one of these days not too remote
  You’ll probably up and cut my throat.”

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• “More than a catbird hates a cat,
  Or a criminal hates a clue,
  Or the Axis hates the United States,
  That's how much I love you.
  
  I love you more than a duck can swim,
  And more than a grapefruit squirts,
  I love you more than a gin rummy is a bore,
  And more than a toothache hurts.
  
  As a shipwrecked sailor hates the sea,
  Or a juggler hates a shove,
  As a hostess detests unexpected guests,
  That's how much you I love.
  
  I love you more than a wasp can sting,
  And more than the subway jerks,
  I love you as much as a beggar needs a crutch,
  And more than a hangnail irks.
  
  I swear to you by the stars above,
  And below, if such there be,
  As the High Court loathes perjurious oathes,
  That's how you're loved by me.”

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• “Progress is a fine thing, but it's gone on long enough.”

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• “Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.”

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• “either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow”

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• “When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
  ~ Ogden Nash”

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• “A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.”

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