Ogden Nash Quotes

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.

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• Some hate broccoli, some hate bacon I hate having my picture taken. How can your family claim to love you And then demand a picture of you?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Family
  • Hate
  • Taken

• Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening wassail, wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.

  

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  • Good
  • May
  • Friends

• The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • End
  • Milk
  • Cow

• Too clever is dumb.

  

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  • Dumb
  • Clever
  • Too

• 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.

  

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  • Up
  • Night
  • Morning

• Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Long
  • Funny
  • Progress

• One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Man
  • Another
  • Remorse

• People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• The pirate gaped at Belinda's dragon,And gulped some grog from his pocket flagon,He fired two bullets, but they didn't hit,And Custard gobbled him, every bit.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Pirate

• 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
  • Marriage
  • Right

• Behold the hippopotamus!We laugh at how he looks to us,And yet in moments dank and grim,I wonder how we look to him.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Moments
  • Wonder

• She took those pills from the pill concocter, And Isabel calmly cured the doctor.

  

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  • Doctor
  • Pills

• The sky is now indelible ink,The branches reft asunder;But you and I we do not shrink;We love the lovely thunder.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Sky

• I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Hope
  • Dogs
  • Tongue

• Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Happiness
  • Scratch
  • Itch

• 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
  • Think
  • Fall
  • Tree

• 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
  • Idea

• Smite, Smoot, Be rugged and rough, Smut if smitten Is front-page stuff.

  

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• Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Candy
  • Quicker
  • Dandy

• Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Men
  • Professional
  • Happens

• Miranda in Miranda's sight Is old and gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • She
  • Night
  • Morning

• O Adolescence, O AdolescenceI wince before thine incandescence . . .When anxious elders swarm aboutCrying 'Where are you going?', thou answerest 'Out,' . . .Strewn! All is lost and nothing foundLord, how thou leavest things around! . . .

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Lost

• Belinda lived in a little white house,With a little black kitten and a little gray mouse,And a little yellow dog and a little red wagon,And a realio, trulio, little pet dragon.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • House
  • Black
  • Dog

• Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • You
  • Know
  • Hurt