Ogden Nash Quotes

You can take it as understood,
That your luck changes only if it’s good.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord’s anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can’t get your fingers on him.

So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf, Which is don’t spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.

The old men know when an old man dies.

There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I’m afraid it’s heading in the wrong direction.

Indoors or out, no one relaxes In March, that month of wind and taxes, The wind will presently disappear, The taxes last us all the year.

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

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.

People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when … People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.

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

Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our children.

The oboe’s a horn made of wood.I’d play you a tune if I could,But the reeds are a pain,And the fingering’s insane.It’s the ill wind that no one blows good.