24 Quotes By Ogden Nash


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.
Ogden Nash on age

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash on age

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash on family

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?
Ogden Nash on funny

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Ogden Nash on happiness

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.
Ogden Nash on happiness

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Ogden Nash on happiness

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.
Ogden Nash on home

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.
Ogden Nash on hope

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
Ogden Nash on hope

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up.
Ogden Nash on love

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up.
Ogden Nash on marriage

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
Ogden Nash on marriage

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash on men

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
Ogden Nash on money

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?
Ogden Nash on money

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.
Ogden Nash on morning

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash on parenting

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
Ogden Nash on pet

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash on women