Ogden Nash

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.

— 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

Candy, is dandy, but Liquor, is quicker.

— Ogden Nash

The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.

— Ogden Nash

They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

— Ogden Nash

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

— Ogden Nash

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

— Ogden Nash

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

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

— Ogden Nash

No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.

— Ogden Nash

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

— Ogden Nash

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.

— Ogden Nash

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.

— Ogden Nash

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

— Ogden Nash

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

— 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

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.

— Ogden Nash

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

— 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.

— Ogden Nash

How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!

— Ogden Nash

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!

— Ogden Nash

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

— Ogden Nash

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

— Ogden Nash

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

— Ogden Nash

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

— Ogden Nash

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

— Ogden Nash

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

— Ogden Nash

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.

— Ogden Nash

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.

— Ogden Nash

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

— Ogden Nash

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.

— Ogden Nash

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.

— Ogden Nash

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

— Ogden Nash

Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.

— Ogden Nash

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.

— 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.

— Ogden Nash

At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jog I joggle.

— Ogden Nash

I love you more than a wasp can sting, And more than the subway jerks, I love you as much as a beggar needs a crutch, And more than a hangnail irks.

— Ogden Nash

What pleasanter task for All Fools' Day than going over all the things that you have done before And don't want to do again never no more, never no more, never no more?

— Ogden Nash

At the very glimpse of a Jack-o'-lantern I've got one foot on the bus to Scranton. When Halloween next delivers the goods, You may duck for apples--I'll duck for the woods.

— Ogden Nash

. . . I wonder if there is a woman in the world strong-minded enough to shed ten pounds or twenty,--And say There now, that's plenty.

— Ogden Nash

Everybody who has a baby thinks everybody who hasn't a baby ought to have a baby.

— Ogden Nash

Husbands are things that wives have to get used to putting up with, And with whom they breakfast with and sup with. They interfere with the discipline of nurseries, And forget anniversaries.

— Ogden Nash

Miranda in Miranda's sight Is old and gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty.

— Ogden Nash

Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore, / And that’s what parents were created for.

— Ogden Nash

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave / When they think that their children are naïve.

— Ogden Nash

May I join you in the doghouse, Rover? / I wish to retire till the party’s over.

— Ogden Nash

O Adolescence, O Adolescence / I wince before thine incandescence ….

— 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.

— Ogden Nash

People could survive their natural trouble all right if it weren’t for the trouble they make for themselves.

— Ogden Nash

How pleasant to sit on the beach, / On the beach, on the sand, in the sun, / With ocean galore within reach, / And nothing at all to be done!

— Ogden Nash