More Quotes by Ogden Nash
There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.
Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite. That’s the season to be young, Catching snowflakes on your tongue. Snow is snowy when it’s snowing, I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going.
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.
How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the trick? How did I get so old so quick?
Celery, raw, Develops the jaw
The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?
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.
Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
