More Quotes by 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.
Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us, crowded into our global concentration camp for the duration. How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves.
Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today.
So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and combat Over everything debatable and combatable Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
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.
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.
There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.
I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.
