Ogden Nash

19 quotations
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ogden Nash · Dogs
Candy, is dandy, but Liquor, is quicker.
Ogden Nash · Alcohol and Alcoholism
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Ogden Nash · Happiness
Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.
Ogden Nash · Hope
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash · Life and Living
The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.
Ogden Nash · Animals
Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
Ogden Nash · New Year
How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!
Ogden Nash · Obesity
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash · Parents and Parenting
Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
Ogden Nash · Professions and Professionals
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash · Progress
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
Ogden Nash · Remorse
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
Ogden Nash · Repentance
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
Ogden Nash · Sin
The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
Ogden Nash · Thrift
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Ogden Nash · Wages
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 · Work
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Ogden Nash · Children
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
Ogden Nash · Conscience

Subjects Ogden Nash spoke about

Alcohol and Alcoholism Animals Children Conscience Dogs Happiness Hope Life and Living New Year Obesity Parents and Parenting Professions and Professionals Progress Remorse Repentance Sin Thrift Wages Work