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

• In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• 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

• There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Today
  • Party
  • Democratic

• 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
  • Course

• 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

• One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don't feel like you don't know where I've been.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Great
  • May
  • Movie

• Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • May
  • Earth

• 'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Technology

• So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

  

  Deborah Norville
  • Help

• Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen.

  

  Anne Fine
  • Leave
  • Guests
  • Suggested

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

  

  Ogden Nash
  • May
  • Party
  • Wish