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Ogden Nash
August 19, 1902 - May 19, 1971
Nationality: American
Category: Poet
Subcategory: American Poet

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

   

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

   

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

    Topics: Family

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

   

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

   

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

   

Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

   

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

   

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

   

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

   

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

   

Women would rather be right than reasonable.

   

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

   

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

   

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

   

Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

   

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

   

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