Quotes from Ogden Nash


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Women would rather be right than reasonable.


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.


Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.


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


People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.


There 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.


Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?


Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?


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.


Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.


People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.


Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.


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.


The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.


One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.


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


Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.


The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.


I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.


Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.