Ogden Nash Quotes

May I join you in the doghouse, Rover?I wish to retire till the party's over.

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• There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • May
  • Genes
  • Schizophrenia

• A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • May
  • Success

• One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • May
  • Job
  • I Can

• You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • May
  • Fear

• I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Past
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • God
  • Man
  • Me

• If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Me
  • Party
  • Dying

• Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Writing
  • Wish
  • Struggle

• When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • May
  • Society
  • Lost

• So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Future
  • Party
  • Optimistic

• I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Night
  • Man
  • Wish

• If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Time
  • Done
  • Party

• I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • May
  • History
  • Future

• I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates to all qualified candidates, including the Libertarians. If that happens, the Libertarian party will experience unprecedented growth.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Party

• If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Country
  • True
  • Expected

• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • War
  • Purpose

• Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Time
  • May
  • Moving

• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.

  

  Kerry Thornley

• I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

  

  John Sladek
  • Time

• Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • House

• This next piece is called 'Sonnet 155', or 'If Shakespeare Had Written a Porn', and it goes like this:

  

  Bo Burnham

• May I join you in the doghouse, Rover?I wish to retire till the party's over.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • May
  • Wish
  • Party