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Ogden Nash [1902-1971] American

Rank: 101
Poet (with poems)

Humour

Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, The New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry".

Happiness, Marriage, Age, Funny, Home, Hope, Money, Morning, Parenting, Pet, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.	Pet	101
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.		102
The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.		103
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.	Marriage	104
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.	Happiness	105
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.		106
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.	Marriage	107
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.		108
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.	Money, Work	109
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.		110
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.		111
Too clever is dumb.		112
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.	Funny	113
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.	Happiness	114
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.		115
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.		116
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.	Age, Home, Hope	117
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.		118
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.	Parenting	119
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.		120
No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.		121
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.		122
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.		123
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.		124
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.		125
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.	Happiness	126
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.		201
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.	Morning	202
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.		203
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.		204
Women would rather be right than reasonable.		205
Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?		206
Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.		207
Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.		208
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.		209
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.		210
I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.		211
Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.		212
There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.		213
Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?		214
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?		215
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.		216

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