Ogden Nash - From the Aging category:
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Children category:
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Drunkenness category:
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Friendship category:
here are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Gender category:
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Growth category:
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Happiness category:
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Happiness category:
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Intellect category:
Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early? (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Life category:
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Money category:
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money? (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Nature category:
Snow is all right while it is snowing; it is like inebriation because it is very pleasing when it is coming, but very unpleasing when it is going. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Pets category:
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Pets category:
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Poetry category:
I'd rather be a great bad poet than a bad good poet. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Possessions category:
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Profession category:
Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Progress category:
Progress is a fine thing, but it's gone on long enough. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Repose category:
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Silence category:
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, / If I belittle dogs and mothers. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Studio category:
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. (Ogden Nash)
Ogden Nash - From the Work category:
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work. (Ogden Nash)
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