“There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.”
—Ogden Nash.
Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash: Kempt, unkempt
“I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.”
—-Ogden Nash.
Ogden Nash: There was a young man of Herne Bay
“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.
Ogden Nash: Conscientious man
“I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.”
—Ogden Nash.
Ogden Nash: Too clever is dumb
“Too clever is dumb.”
—Ogden Nash.
Ogden Nash: They really don’t want 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.”
—Ogden Nash.
Ogden Nash: Wolves, shepherds and butchers
“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.
Ogden Nash: Paid more
“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.” —-Ogden Nash.
Ogden Nash: Either or
“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.
Ogden Nash: Marriage
“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.
Ogden Nash: Where there is a monster
“Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.”
—Ogden Nash.
Ogden Nash: Opens outwards
“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.
Ogden Nash: Preparing to overwhelm
‘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.
Ogden Nash: Tangled web
“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.”
—Ogden Nash.
Ogden Nash: Middle age
“Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.”
—Ogden Nash.
Ogden Nash: Immature indefinitely
“You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.”
—Ogden Nash.
Ogden Nash: Marriage
“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.
Ogden Nash: Bigoted mind
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)
Ogden Nash: Marriage
“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up. “
—Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971).
Ogden Nash: Remorse
“Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.”
—Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971).
Ogden Nash: Dental torture
Some tortures are physical / And some are mental, / But the one that is both / Is dental. –Ogden Nash, poet (1902-1971)
Ogden Nash: Of llamas
“The one-l lama,
He’s a priest.
The two-l llama,
He’s a beast.
And I will bet
A silk pajama
There isn’t any
Three-l lllama.”
—Ogden Nash
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