One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to… — Ogden Nash Danger Copy Share Image
The dog is man's best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs… — Ogden Nash Animal Copy Share Image
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The song of canaries Never varies, And when they're moulting They're pretty revolting. — Ogden Nash Canaries Copy Share Image
How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the… — Ogden Nash Bachelors Copy Share Image
Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I test my bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard. — Ogden Nash Cooking Copy Share Image
Belinda lived in a little white house, With a little black kitten and a little gray mouse, And a little yellow dog… — Ogden Nash Animal Copy Share Image
There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is… — Ogden Nash Friendship Copy Share Image
It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators all, and I recommend to you this moral: In real… — Ogden Nash Dictator Copy Share Image
There was a young man of Herne Bay who was making some fireworks one day: but he dropped his cigar in the… — Ogden Nash Cigar Copy Share Image
Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Husbands are things that wives have to get used to putting up with. And with whom they breakfast with and sup with.… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. — Ogden Nash Child Copy Share Image
Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time… — Ogden Nash Animal Copy Share Image
Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it. — Ogden Nash Adults Copy Share Image
Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you? — Ogden Nash Camel Copy Share Image
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to… — Ogden Nash Feminism Copy Share Image
Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last… — Ogden Nash April Copy Share Image
I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so… — Ogden Nash Journalism Copy Share Image
Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility? — Ogden Nash Giving Copy Share Image
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance. — Ogden Nash Insouciance Copy Share Image
A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. — Ogden Nash Birthday Copy Share Image
I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to… — Ogden Nash Feminism Copy Share Image
If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing. — Ogden Nash Fragile Copy Share Image
