Ogden Nash Quotes
1902–1971 United States
Ogden Nash (19 August 1902 – 19 May 1971) was an American poet.
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87 quotes
Candy
Is Dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.
Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
Man is a victim of dope
In the incurable form of hope.
Women would rather be right than reasonable.
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
A girl whose cheeks are covered with paint
Has an advantage with me over one whose ain't.
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed
the floor.
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
God in his wisdom made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why.
Among the anthropophagi
One's friends are one's sarcophagi.
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ogden Nash (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.