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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
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
I often ask me, What's he there for?
The only answer i can find
Is, Reproduction of his kind. — 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 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
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
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 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
Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer
— 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
I suppose the human race would get ideas above its station. — 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
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
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
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
— Ogden Nash
All that glitters is sold as gold.
— Ogden Nash
Celery, raw,
Develops the jaw — Ogden Nash
Develops the jaw — 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 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
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
It is always a time of war.
— Ogden W. Rogers
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
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
In the world of mules
There are no rules. — Ogden Nash
There are no rules. — 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
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