Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who neve...
OGDEN NASH Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
OGDEN NASH If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to wo...
OGDEN NASH Too clever is dumb.
OGDEN NASH Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someo...
OGDEN NASH I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is r...
OGDEN NASH I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she w...
OGDEN NASH Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
OGDEN NASH People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they r...
OGDEN NASH One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
OGDEN NASH No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
OGDEN NASH Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you ho...
OGDEN NASH The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
OGDEN NASH The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
OGDEN NASH I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that t...
OGDEN NASH If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
OGDEN NASH Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment linge...
OGDEN NASH There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and tha...
OGDEN NASH To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whene...
OGDEN NASH Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who can...
OGDEN NASH If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or ...
OGDEN NASH A little incompatibility is the spice of life, as long as he has income and she is pattable.
OGDEN NASH A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle...
OGDEN NASH Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..
OGDEN NASH Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate ...
OGDEN NASH A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
OGDEN NASH You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good.
OGDEN NASH Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
OGDEN NASH They take the paper and they read the headlines, So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard ...
OGDEN NASH Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
OGDEN NASH He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentenc...
OGDEN NASH I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she wa...
OGDEN NASH He without benefit of scruples
His fun and money soon quadruples.
OGDEN NASH Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
OGDEN NASH Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.
OGDEN NASH The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.
OGDEN NASH Candy, is dandy, but Liquor, is quicker.
OGDEN NASH Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell...
OGDEN NASH I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
OGDEN NASH There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a cl...
OGDEN NASH They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard ...
OGDEN NASH A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
OGDEN NASH No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and ...
OGDEN NASH Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.
OGDEN NASH A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the co...
OGDEN NASH Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
OGDEN NASH And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, onl...
OGDEN NASH I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fa...
OGDEN NASH Some primal termite knocked on wood;
and tasted it, and found it good.
That is why your Cousin...
OGDEN NASH Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's ...
OGDEN NASH I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so...
OGDEN NASH Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
OGDEN NASH How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!
OGDEN NASH If some confectioners were willing
To let the shape announce the filling,
We'd encounter fewer...
OGDEN NASH Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disap...
OGDEN NASH Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
OGDEN NASH Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman wh...
OGDEN NASH Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it
OGDEN NASH Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope i...
OGDEN NASH I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'l...
OGDEN NASH Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday...
OGDEN NASH One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
OGDEN NASH The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
OGDEN NASH The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make u...
OGDEN NASH Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them
OGDEN NASH Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.
OGDEN NASH O misery, misery, mumble and moan!
Someone invented the telephone,
And interrupted a nation's ...
OGDEN NASH Indoors or out, no one relaxes
In March, that month of wind and taxes,
The wind will presently...
OGDEN NASH Daybreak is one of the greatest disadvantages of living under the solar system: It means having to g...
OGDEN NASH Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
OGDEN NASH There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the bes...
OGDEN NASH Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
OGDEN NASH To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Wh...
OGDEN NASH The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
OGDEN NASH Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
OGDEN NASH I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
OGDEN NASH Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently dis...
OGDEN NASH Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental.
OGDEN NASH Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
OGDEN NASH Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long.
OGDEN NASH Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny -
Did you ever try b...
OGDEN NASH The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks
Which practically conceal its sex.
I think it clever of t...
OGDEN NASH He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples.
OGDEN NASH The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon.
Let others say his heart...
OGDEN NASH Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.
OGDEN NASH People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they ...
OGDEN NASH The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher,
Were each of them once a kiddie.
A child, indeed,...
OGDEN NASH Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long.
OGDEN NASH Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never fo...
OGDEN NASH I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboard...
OGDEN NASH Candy
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.
OGDEN NASH People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
OGDEN NASH People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they reall...
OGDEN NASH Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone e...
OGDEN NASH The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
OGDEN NASH I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I&...
OGDEN NASH Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the bro...
OGDEN NASH Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most ...
OGDEN NASH Bankers are just like anybody else, except richer
OGDEN NASH Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return...
OGDEN NASH I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was prepa...
OGDEN NASH Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, da...
OGDEN NASH Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
OGDEN NASH There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, And that is to have either a cl...
OGDEN NASH I prefer to forget both pairs of glasses and pass my declining years saluting strange women and gran...
OGDEN NASH Purity is obscurity.
OGDEN NASH Middle age ends and senescence begins, The day your descendants outnumber your friends
OGDEN NASH Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think their children are naïve.
OGDEN NASH Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buyi...
OGDEN NASH The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex. I think it clever of the tur...
OGDEN NASH Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives ...
OGDEN NASH They take the paper and they read the headlines, so they've heard of unemployment and they've heard ...
OGDEN NASH Some tortures are physical and some are mental, but the one that's both is dental.
OGDEN NASH Some people's money is merited/ And other people's is inherited.
OGDEN NASH Do you think my mind is maturing late,Or simply rotted early?
OGDEN NASH If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work
OGDEN NASH Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
OGDEN NASH Women would rather be right than reasonable
OGDEN NASH People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they ...
OGDEN NASH There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the bes...
OGDEN NASH To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenev...
OGDEN NASH Candy Is dandy, But liquor Is quicker
OGDEN NASH Now, anybody whom a German hates, He presently exterminates, But he who exterminates a French Is nev...
OGDEN NASH Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
OGDEN NASH To be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
OGDEN NASH You scour the Bowery, ransack the Bronx,/ Through funeral parlors and honky-tonks./ From river to ri...
OGDEN NASH If called by a panther,/ don't anther.
OGDEN NASH Someone invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumber, Ringing wrong but similar number...
OGDEN NASH One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence
OGDEN NASH Every Englishman knows one thing - that to be an Englishman is the best thing there is.
OGDEN NASH The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk
OGDEN NASH And one of his partners asked ''Has he vertigo?'' and the other glanced out and down and said ''Oh n...
OGDEN NASH One would be in less danger from the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith were more fun t...
OGDEN NASH Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for
OGDEN NASH An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no...
OGDEN NASH Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind, But it is very difficult to treat because it cannot even...
OGDEN NASH Were it not for frustration and humiliation
I suppose the human race would get ideas above its ...
OGDEN NASH Certainly there are things in life that money can’t buy, but it’s very funny –
Did you e...
OGDEN NASH The camel has a single hump;/ The dromedary, two;/ Or else the other way around./ I'm never sure. Ar...
OGDEN NASH either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you...
OGDEN NASH Which the Chicken and Which the Egg?

He drinks because she scolds, he thinks;
She th...
OGDEN NASH Home is heaven and orgies are vile/ But you need an orgy, once in a while.
OGDEN NASH In the world of mules there are no rules.
OGDEN NASH A man is quite dishonorable to sell himself, For anything other than quite a lot of pelf
OGDEN NASH In the words of the poet, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, this erstwhile youth replies, I just ca...
OGDEN NASH At least when I get on the Boston train I have a good chance of landing in the South Station
An...
OGDEN NASH Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.
OGDEN NASH America has run the world for at least the past 50 years, and when you're at the top that long, you ...
FRANK OGDEN I use many props. The props act as cue cards reminding me of what to say next.
TOM OGDEN Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.
TOM OGDEN They gave us everything we could handle. They're one of the best 1-4 teams I've ever seen.
BUD OGDEN He was still a huge question mark. It wasn't until he started (with WVBC) that he had the time and t...
BUD OGDEN If he was going to beat us, it would be from the line.
BUD OGDEN He's kind of unique. I expect big things out of him.
BUD OGDEN I'll be disappointed if we don't do well in league. I want to leave it broad like that.
BUD OGDEN Tuesday is a huge one and if we can take care of business, it looks like a time where anybody can be...
BUD OGDEN Frankie has improved and improved and improved.
BUD OGDEN We couldn't have written an ending to this rivalry better. From our perspective, we snatched a victo...
BUD OGDEN We did what we had to do to win. We got rebounds when we had to and got to loose balls. Players step...
BUD OGDEN Nothing would make me happier. I know that program inside and out. That's a ways off and a lot can h...
BUD OGDEN He's a legend. He deserves respect.
CLAY OGDEN They were on a roll. There was definitely a momentum switch at the tail end of the game.
BUD OGDEN There's good news and bad news. We're definitely nowhere near being out of the woods.
CYNTHIA OGDEN We've seen an increase in obesity in men and we've seen an increase in overweight in both boys and g...
CYNTHIA OGDEN I was particularly concerned about seeing the increase in children, because we know that children wh...
CYNTHIA OGDEN About 17 percent of children are overweight and about a third of adults are obese.
CYNTHIA OGDEN How quickly the gun was pulled, it didn't seem like there was rational thinking there so that's what...
AMANDA OGDEN He had pulled a gun and said, excuse my language here, but said, 'I'll (expletive) shoot her, I'll (...
AMANDA OGDEN Our dog kind of got a little jumpy ... and the dogs went to kind of say hello and he swung his stick...
AMANDA OGDEN Given the Court of Appeals decision, this is a fair resolution for the American taxpayer.
DAVID OGDEN Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They...
CHARLES OGDEN He worked as hard as any other pilot, and his stick and throttle are above most others.
CLAY OGDEN It'll be no picnic. We're going to have to shoot the ball better or it's going to be a long afternoo...
BUD OGDEN Cab drivers are living proof that practice does not make perfect
HOWARD OGDEN The guy can just roll the rock. The putt he made on 17 was something. The way he has it going right ...
CLAY OGDEN (Handy) is just about the only player we can depend upon to individually create shots and make it.
BUD OGDEN It's during childhood that our patterns often are set. Overweight adolescents often become obese adu...
CYNTHIA OGDEN Obviously there has to be some upper limit. I just don't know where it's going to be.
CYNTHIA OGDEN I was surprised that we could see an upward trend in such a short time among overweight children and...
CYNTHIA OGDEN It looks like it's leveling off. We'll need more data over the next few years to know for sure, but ...
CYNTHIA OGDEN It looks like it's leveling off.
CYNTHIA OGDEN I didn't know if we would be able to detect an increase and I was surprised that we did. It's a conc...
CYNTHIA OGDEN It does look good for women. Obesity may be stabilizing.
CYNTHIA OGDEN Basically, men are catching up to women.
CYNTHIA OGDEN There's definitely a growing gap between African-American culture and baseball. The doors Jackie Rob...
DAVID OGDEN We are looking at possible future layoffs.
DAVID OGDEN We allege that in carrying out that campaign, they pulled no punches, ... For decades, they repeated...
DAVID OGDEN The resolution of these issues ensures that this evidence of one of the most tragic events in Americ...
DAVID OGDEN Today's decision by the arbitration panel secures the original Zapruder film for the public and guar...
DAVID OGDEN [An attorney for Ladner said yesterday that he could not comment on the statement.] I haven't seen i...
DAVID OGDEN It's our belief that presidential papers belong to all the American people.
DAVID OGDEN There have been discussions between a group of trustees and Dr. Ladner, which are designed, we under...
DAVID OGDEN The guy can just roll the rock, period. The way he has it going right now - he's looking the way he ...
CLAY OGDEN The guy can just roll the rock, period.
CLAY OGDEN It was amazing. I grew up watching him play, and now to get to witness it first hand was incredible....
CLAY OGDEN I would say some people change drivers one or two times a year.
CLAY OGDEN I don't know what it is about the second round, but we just seem to step it up. The second round is ...
CLAY OGDEN You've got to keep the gas on and keep it going.
CLAY OGDEN I was kind of joking and I actually said that I hoped I play her. And here we go.
CLAY OGDEN We don't want him acclimated to people. In order to survive they've got to keep hating people.
FRANK OGDEN