Quotes by Ogden Nash

Ogden Nash

Ogden Nash

American poet

Lived from: 1902 - 1971

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 19 august 1902 Died: 19 may 1971

  • 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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  • How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!
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  • The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.
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  • To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
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  • A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
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  • A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
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  • And one of his partners asked ''Has he vertigo?'' and the other glanced out and down and said ''Oh no, only about ten feet more.''
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  • Candy, is dandy, but Liquor, is quicker.
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  • Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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  • Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
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  • Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.
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  • Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures - take them, George, they're yours!
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  • 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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  • I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.
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  • I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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  • If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.
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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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  • Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.
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  • Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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  • Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.
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  • Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.
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What are the most famous quotes from Ogden Nash?

The two most famous quotes from Ogden Nash are:

  • "How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!"
  • "The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk."

When did Ogden Nash live?

Ogden Nash was born in 1902 and died in the year 1971.