Skip to content

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 Many Long Years Ago (1945)

Another quote →

Topics

Love

More quotes by Ogden Nash

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Candy
Is Dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

We love the kindly wind and hail,
The jolly thunderbolt,
We watch in glee the fairy trail
Of ampere, watt, and volt.

Many Long Years Ago (1945)

Man is a victim of dope
In the incurable form of hope.

All Ogden Nash quotes →

You may also like

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Ogden Nash (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.