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Quotes by Ogden Nash

  • To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up.
  • An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.
  • Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
  • I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
  • Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
  • If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
  • A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
  • Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.
  • People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
  • A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
  • People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
  • Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.