More Quotes by Ogden Nash
Abracadabra, thus we learn The more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given, The less you lead, the more you're driven, The more destroyed, the more they feed, The more you pay, the more they need, The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.
I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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.
The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?
Too much Chablis can make you whablis.
There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.
No, you never get any fun Out of the things you haven't done.