Ogden Nash quotes Born: 08/19/1902 Died: 05/19/1971 Country: usa

• A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. (Ogden Nash)
• I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. (Ogden Nash) [think]
• 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) [happiness/conscience]
• The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. (Ogden Nash) [happiness/happiness/control]
• No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed. (Ogden Nash) [matter]
• 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) [thing/money]
• Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. (Ogden Nash) [life/floor]
• Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope. (Ogden Nash) [form]
• 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) [marriage]
• How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge! (Ogden Nash)
• Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs. (Ogden Nash) [men]
• Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. (Ogden Nash) [civilization & progress]
• 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) [news/right]
• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. (Ogden Nash) [parents]
• 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) [more]
• 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) [willpower]
• The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift. (Ogden Nash) [life/more]
• Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind. (Ogden Nash) [mind]
• The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin. (Ogden Nash) [people/sin/people/sin]
• 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) [wine/needs/people/look]
• The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk. (Ogden Nash) [start]
• Candy, is dandy, but Liquor, is quicker. (Ogden Nash)
• People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. (Ogden Nash) [people/more/people]
• A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. (Ogden Nash)
• Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. (Ogden Nash)
• 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)
• Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. (Ogden Nash)
• Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you. (Ogden Nash)
• Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early? (Ogden Nash)
• Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. (Ogden Nash)
• 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)

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