At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jog I joggle. — Ogden Nash Age Copy Share Image
A Cough is something that you yourself can't help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental.” — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I… — Ogden Nash Children Copy Share Image
Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. — Ogden Nash People Copy Share Image
I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that… — Ogden Nash Care Copy Share Image
“I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.” — Ogden Nash Dreams Copy Share Image
The doctor gets you when you're born, The preacher, when you marry, And the lawyer lurks with costly clerks If too much… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature… So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is… — Ogden Nash Authors Copy Share Image
Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed… — Ogden Nash Child Copy Share Image
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where… — Ogden Nash Human nature 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
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“A Caution to Everybody consider the Auk. Becoming extinct before because he forgot out to fly and could only walk. Consider Man,… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi. — Ogden Nash Empires Copy Share Image
There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
To maintain your marriage brimming, with really like in the wedding cup, anytime you are incorrect, admit it each time you're proper,… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor. — Ogden Nash Adversity Copy Share Image
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 Basketball Copy Share Image
“My fellow man I do not care for. I often ask me, What's he there for? The only answer i can find… — Ogden Nash Fellow man Copy Share Image
I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The truth I do not stretch or shove When I state the dog is full of love. I've also proved, by actual… — Ogden Nash Animal Copy Share Image
Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin, That lays eggs under your skin. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. — Ogden Nash Child Copy Share Image
Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers. — Ogden Nash Inspirational Copy Share Image
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 Differences Copy Share Image
I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“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 Dream Copy Share Image
“Hark to the sky of a seagull! He cries because he's not an eagle. Oh, what if you were you silly he-gull?… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
O thrice unhappy home Whose master doesn't know the difference between a watt and an ohm! — Ogden Nash Differences Copy Share Image
We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt. — Ogden Nash Fairy Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze, And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
