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One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor. — Ogden Nash

My fellow man I do not care for.
I often ask me, What's he there for?
The only answer i can find
Is, Reproduction of his kind. — Ogden Nash

Elephants are useful friends: they have handles on both ends. — Ogden Nash

A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network. — David Ogden Stiers

O thrice unhappy home Whose master doesn't know the difference between a watt and an ohm! — Ogden Nash

The truth I do not stretch or shove
When I state the dog is full of love.
I've also proved, by actual test,
A wet dog is the lovingest. — Ogden Nash

When there are monsters there are miracles. — Ogden Nash

People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it. — Ogden Nash

If you only enjoy the journey of writing, that's reward enough. — Deray Ogden

The only way I can distinguish proper from improper fractions is by their actions — Ogden Nash

Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was. — Ogden Nash

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. — Ogden Nash

Either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow — Ogden Nash

Progress is a fine thing, but it's gone on long enough. — Ogden Nash

When you're wrong admit it, when you're right, shut up. — Ogden Nash

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. — Ogden Nash

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

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile. — Ogden Nash

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. — Ogden Nash

We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt. — 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

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet. — Ogden Nash

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo. — Ogden Nash

I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned. — Ogden Nash

Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer — Ogden Nash

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. — Ogden Nash

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance. — Ogden Nash

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb. — Ogden Nash

I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face. — Ogden Nash

Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it. — Ogden Nash

When you do "it" right, Social Work is a feeling that is larger than you own life. — Ogden W. Rogers

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift. — Ogden Nash

Were it not for frustration and humiliation
I suppose the human race would get ideas above its station. — Ogden Nash

Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road. — Ogden Nash

It's my own dream, I dreamt it, I dreamt that my hair was kempt, then I dremat my true love unkempt it. — Ogden Nash

Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't. — Ogden Nash

One thing about the past. It's likely to last. — Ogden Nash

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra. — David Ogden Stiers

ADVENTURES OF ISABEL
Isabel — Ogden Nash

Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force. — Ogden Nash

It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting. — David Ogden Stiers

I test my bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so frigid upon the fundament. — Ogden Nash

I was born a jackdaw; why should I try to be an owl? — Ogden Nash

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long. — Ogden Nash

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker. — Ogden Nash

No man is greater than his respect for sleep. — Ogden Nash

A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you. — Ogden Nash

A bit of talcum Is always walcum. — Ogden Nash

I am so proud to be the Baltimore Ravens' first Hall of Fame inductee. — Jonathan Ogden

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

I think in terms of rhyme, and have since I was six years old, — Ogden Nash

I would not engage the wombat
In any form of mortal combat. — Ogden Nash

Brilliant? Ha! Your about as bright as a black hole!' Ellen resorted. — Charles Ogden

All that glitters is sold as gold. — Ogden Nash

Celery, raw,
Develops the jaw — Ogden Nash

He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples. — Ogden Nash

One bliss for which There is no match Is when you itch To up and scratch. — Ogden Nash

Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker. — Ogden Nash

The song of canaries
Never varies,
And when they're moulting
They're pretty revolting. — Ogden Nash

Man is a victim of dope
In the incurable form of hope! — Ogden Nash

The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you? — Ogden Nash

Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is. — Ogden Nash

The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce. — Ogden Nash

I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again. — David Ogden Stiers

It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,
That lays eggs under your skin. — Ogden Nash

Too clever is dumb. — Ogden Nash

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills! — Charles Ogden

A lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty up- set if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her. — Ogden Nash

I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned. — David Ogden Stiers

In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel. — Ogden Nash

But all ladies think they weigh too much. — Ogden Nash

No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed. — Ogden Nash

You can take it as understood,
That your luck changes only if it's good. — Ogden Nash

I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine. — Ogden Nash

It is always a time of war. — Ogden W. Rogers

But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father. — Ogden Nash

I have an idea that the phrase "the weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm. - OGDEN NASH — Daniel G. Amen

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after. — Ogden Nash

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated. — David Ogden Stiers

Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut. — J. Ogden Armour

Women would rather be right than reasonable. — Ogden Nash

And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs. — Ogden Nash

Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art. — Ogden Nash

In the world of mules
There are no rules. — Ogden Nash

There's nothing that keeps it's youth
So far as I know, but a tree and the truth
— Ogden Nash

Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world. — Ogden Nash

Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes! — Ogden Nash

Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot. — Ogden Nash

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. — Ogden Nash

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot. — David Ogden Stiers

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers. — Ogden Nash

To keep one's marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up. - Ogden Nash — Meg Cabot

A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus. — Ogden Nash

The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do. — J. Ogden Armour

I am tarred and feathered with Time. — Ogden Nash

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born. — Ogden Nash

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them. — David Ogden Stiers

The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk. — Ogden Nash

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried. — David Ogden Stiers

Time is like the ocean, always there, always different. — Ogden Nash