Ogden Nash Quotes


40 Ogden Nash quotes:



"Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or produceful"
Author: Nash Quotes Category: Poet Quotes
"Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think their children are na•ve."
Author: Nash Quotes Category: Parents Quotes
"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."
Author: Nash Quotes Category: Marriage Quotes
"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."
Author: Nash Quotes Category: Marriage Quotes
"You can take it as understood that your luck changes only if it's good"
Author: Nash Quotes Category: Luck Quotes
"Daybreak is one of the greatest disadvantages of living under the solar system: It means having to get up almost the very minute you go to bed, And bathe and shave and scrub industriously at your molar system And catch a train and go to the office an"
Author: Nash Quotes Category: Living Quotes
"Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."
Author: Nash Quotes Category: Life Quotes
"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."
Author: Nash Quotes Category: Hope Quotes
"No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed."
Author: Nash Quotes Category: Grief Quotes
"If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate."
Author: Nash Quotes Category: Fate Quotes Wives Quotes
"In the words of the poet, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, this erstwhile youth replies, I just can't"
Author: Nash Quotes Category: Duty Quotes
"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold"
Author: Nash Quotes Category: Children Quotes
"They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball."
Author: Nash Quotes Category: Charity Quotes
"Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you."
Author: Nash Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat."
Author: Nash Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes Trouble Quotes
"The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late."
Author: Nash Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?"
Author: Nash Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."
Author: Nash Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"Too clever is dumb."
Author: Nash Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes
"The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin."
Author: Nash Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes



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