More Quotes by Ogden Nash
Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how.
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.
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.
The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.
Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.
Time is like the ocean, always there, always different.
There was a young man of Herne Bay who was making some fireworks one day: but he dropped his cigar in the gunpowder jar. There was a young man of Herne Bay.
To love is an active verb.
I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.
The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?
