Ogden Nash Quotes - Page 8

I was born a jackdaw; why should I try to be an owl?

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.

The moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but if some kind of sin you must be pursuing, Well, remember to do it by doing rather than by not doing.

Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.

One bliss for which There is no match Is when you itch To up and scratch.

Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi.

Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it.

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

To Tom Carlson or his dog-depending on whose taste it best suits.

No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.

Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

This is my dream, It is my own dream, I dreamt it. I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.

The old men know when an old man dies.

Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.

Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.

But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts, That all sin is divided into two parts. One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important