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Ogden Nash Quotations

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To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up.
US humorist & poet
1902 - 1971
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
US humorist & poet
1902 - 1971
Candy
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.
Ogden Nash - Reflections on Ice-Breaking
US humorist & poet
1902 - 1971
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
US humorist & poet
1902 - 1971
If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
US humorist & poet
1902 - 1971
Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
US humorist & poet
1902 - 1971
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
US humorist & poet
1902 - 1971
The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher,
Were each of them once a kiddie.
A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature.
Do I want one? God Forbiddie!
US humorist & poet
1902 - 1971
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.
US humorist & poet
1902 - 1971
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
US humorist & poet
1902 - 1971
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
US humorist & poet
1902 - 1971
Nietsche is Pietsche."
US humorist & poet
1902 - 1971
The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon.
Let others say his heart is big,
I think it stupid of the Pig.
Ogden Nash - The Pig
US humorist & poet
1902 - 1971
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
US humorist & poet
1902 - 1971
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
US humorist & poet
1902 - 1971
When there are monsters there are miracles.
US humorist & poet
1902 - 1971
He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples.
US humorist & poet
1902 - 1971
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.
US humorist & poet
1902 - 1971

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