Quotes by Ogden Nash

A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
– Ogden Nash
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.
– Ogden Nash
Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
– Ogden Nash
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
– 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
Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
– Ogden Nash
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
– Ogden Nash
Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures - take them, George, they're yours!
– Ogden Nash
I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.
– Ogden Nash
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
– Ogden Nash
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
– Ogden Nash
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
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
– Ogden Nash
No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.
– Ogden Nash
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
– Ogden Nash
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
– Ogden Nash
Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
– Ogden Nash
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
– Ogden Nash
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
– Ogden Nash
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.
– Ogden Nash
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.
– Ogden Nash
The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
– Ogden Nash
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
– Ogden Nash
The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat.
– Ogden Nash
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
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.
– Ogden Nash
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
– Ogden Nash
Too clever is dumb.
– Ogden Nash
Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.
– Ogden Nash
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.
– Ogden Nash
Women would rather be right than reasonable.
– Ogden Nash
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
– Ogden Nash
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
– 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.
– Ogden Nash
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
– Ogden Nash
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
– 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
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
– Ogden Nash