Ogden Nash quotes

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. (Ogden Nash)
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. View quote
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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. View quote
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. View quote
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. View quote
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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. View quote
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Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. View quote
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. View quote
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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. View quote
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People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it. View quote
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Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals? (Ogden Nash)
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence. View quote
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Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is. View quote
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. View quote
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Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind. View quote
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The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk. View quote
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet. View quote
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To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. View quote
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive. (Ogden Nash)
If called by a panther,don't anther. View quote
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Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy, You've had about seven hours' sleep since Friday, No wonder you feel that lost sensation You're sunk from a riot of relaxation. View quote
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The turtle lives twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile. View quote
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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. View quote
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