“There was a young man of Herne Bay

who was making some fireworks one day:

but he dropped his cigar

in the gunpowder jar.

There was a young man of Herne Bay.”

—Ogden Nash. 

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

—Ogden Nash. 

“Too clever is dumb.” 

—Ogden Nash. 

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

—Ogden Nash. 

“Either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow.”

—Ogden Nash. 

“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.” —-Ogden Nash.

“Either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow.”

—Ogden Nash, I’m a Stranger Here Myself. 

“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.”

—Ogden Nash. 

“Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.” 

—Ogden Nash. 

“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. 

‘I have an idea that the phrase “weaker sex” was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.’

—Ogden Nash. 

“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.” 

—Ogden Nash. 

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

—Ogden Nash. 

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

—Ogden Nash. 

“To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong,  admit it; whenever you’re right,  shut up.” 

—Ogden Nash. 

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, poet (19 Aug 1902-1971)

“Everybody who has a baby thinks everybody who hasn’t a baby ought to have a baby.”
~Ogden Nash.

Portrait of 1-year-old baby girl (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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“Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.”

—Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971).

Some tortures are physical / And some are mental, / But the one that is both / Is dental. –Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971)

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Dentistry logo: a cross-sectional diagram of a tooth on a white background, fading out towards the bottom of the image. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)