Ogden Nash Quotes

Ogden Nash
American Poet
Born: Aug 19, 1902
Died: May 19, 1971
Children Every Man People Think You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
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
Love You Marriage Admit Wrong Cup Up Whenever Loving Your Keep Right Shut Shut Up
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. Ogden Nash
Dandy Quicker Liquor Candy
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 Achieve Way One-Way Only Only One Way Clear Clear Conscience Terrestrial Ball None Either Conscience
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
Hope Home You Age Telephone Rings Sitting Middle Middle Age Saturday Saturday Night Night
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. Ogden Nash
Dog Side Wrong Wrong Side Perpetually Door
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
Fall Think Tree Unless See Shall Never Perhaps Lovely Billboard Billboards
Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early? Ogden Nash
You Mind Think Late Simply Maturing Early
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. Ogden Nash
You Age People Met Every Else Meet Someone Reminds New Person So Many People Middle Middle Age Many
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm. Ogden Nash
Man Woman Sex Weaker Phrase Some Idea Disarm She Overwhelm Preparing
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 Never Wrong Like Because Era Were Been Get Going Persons Many Right Things
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. Ogden Nash
Family Animal Women Men Cold Composed Only Occasional Common Children Unit
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence. Ogden Nash
Man Remorse Another
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
Morning Regret Every Late Our Minds Paradoxes Reluctance Make Make Up Bed Leave Go Up Bundle Quit Bodies Keep Early Every Night Night
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. Ogden Nash
Marriage People Other Birthdays Alliance Never Remembers Forgets Them Who Whom Two Two People
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it. Ogden Nash
People Telling Fond Want Really Who
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance. Ogden Nash
Life My Life Live Living All My Life Would Rather Making Making A Living Were Which
Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals? Ogden Nash
Long Year Every Criminals Direct Long Line New Proven Line New Year Descendant
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin. Ogden Nash
People Only Sin Grin Really Should Who
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive. Ogden Nash
Parents Think Weave Web Naive Tangled Oh Children
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind. Ogden Nash
Mind Remorse Violent
Too clever is dumb. Ogden Nash
Clever Too Dumb
Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs. Ogden Nash
Men Whatever Cares Get Happens Professional
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. Ogden Nash
Life Man Waxed Having Been Just Floor

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