Ogden Nash Quotes

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• Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

  Ogden Nash

  Inspirational, Life, Marriage

  Ogden Nash, “A Word To Husbands”

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  Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

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  Funny, Birthday, Friday

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• The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

  Ogden Nash

  Doors, Mind, Pressure

  Ogden Nash (1942). “Good intentions”, Little, Brown

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• Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.

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  Mean, Survival, World

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• Some primal termite knocked on wood.
  And tasted it, and found it good.
  And that is why your Cousin May
  Fell through the parlor floor today.

  Ogden Nash

  Cousin, Science, May

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

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  Funny, Dental Work, Teeth

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.

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  Funny, Humor, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

  Ogden Nash

  God, Wisdom, Silly

  1942 Good Intentions,'The Fly'.

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• Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us, crowded into our global concentration camp for the duration. How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves.

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  Lying, Mean, Acceptance

  "A Gleeful Splash of Ogden Nash" by Jonathan Yardley, www.washingtonpost.com. May 08, 2005.

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• Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

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  Wind, Tree, Branches

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• Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

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  Relationship, Marriage, Funny Birthday

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If called by a panther, don't anther.

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  Advice, Panthers, Ifs

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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• I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.

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  Believe, People, I Believe

  Ogden Nash (1942). “Good intentions”, Little, Brown

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• If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

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  Funny, Money, Crazy

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• Time is like the ocean, always there, always different.

  Ogden Nash

  Time, Ocean, Inspiration

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• Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

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  Sports, Clever, Psychology

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the trick? How did I get so old so quick?

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  Memories, Confusing, Secret

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• Too much Chablis can make you whablis.

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  Wine, Too Much

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• The truth I do not stretch or shove
  When I state the dog is full of love.
  I've also proved, by actual test,
  A wet dog is the lovingest.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Tests, States

  Ogden Nash, Étienne Delessert (1987). “Ogden Nash's zoo”, Stewart, Tabori and Chang

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• So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and combat
  Over everything debatable and combatable
  Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life
  Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.

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  Husband, Believe, Wife

  Ogden Nash, “I Do, I Will, I Have”

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• No, you never get any fun
  Out of the things you haven't done.

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  Children, Fun, Done

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• Senescence begins
  And middle-age ends
  The day your descendants
  Outnumber your friends

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Age, Ends

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

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  Funny, Dog, Illiteracy

  "A Dog's Best Friend Is His Illiteracy". "The Private Dining Room". Book by Ogden Nash, 1953.

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• 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.

  Ogden Nash

  Fall, Inspiration, Thinking

  "Song of the Open Road" l. 1 (1933) See Kilmer 1

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• Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.

  Ogden Nash

  Love Is, Gold, And Love

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