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More Quotes by Ogden Nash
Time is like the ocean, always there, always different.
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.
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 tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.
Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how.
If called by a panther, don't anther.
One thing about the past. It's likely to last.
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.
The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.
