Ogden Nash Quotes

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Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

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— Ogden Nash

Source: Hard Lines - Reflections on Ice-Breaking - 1931

Progress is a fine thing, but it’s gone on long enough.

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— Ogden Nash

The trouble with a kitten is.. that.. eventually it becomes a cat.

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— Ogden Nash

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

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— Ogden Nash

Source: I'm a Stranger Here Myself - 1938

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

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— Ogden Nash

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.

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— Ogden Nash

Children aren’t happy without something to ignore, And that’s what parents were created for.

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— Ogden Nash

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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— Ogden Nash

Source: Hard Lines

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

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— Ogden Nash

Source: Good Intentions - 1943

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

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— Ogden Nash

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

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— Ogden Nash

Source: Everybody Tells Me Everything - The Face Is Familiar - 1940

To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it,
Whenever you’re right, shut up.

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— Ogden Nash

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.

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— Ogden Nash

Source: Happy Days - Song of the Open Road - 1933

Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it’s midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!

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— Ogden Nash