Top 100 Ogden's Quotes
#1. My ideal birthday gift would be harmony between all magic and non-magic peoples - though I wouldn't say no to a large bottle of Ogden's Old Firewhisky!
J.K. Rowling
#2. He made a careful rehearsal of some of their bits of talk
why had she said this? what had she meant by that? why had she done the other? He dwelt on these matters with an absorbed speculation, and with a young man of Ogden's temperament speculation was but the first step on the way to love.
Henry Blake Fuller
#3. There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.
Ogden Nash
#4. Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.
Ogden Nash
#5. Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!
Ogden Nash
#6. You can take it as understood,
That your luck changes only if it's good.
Ogden Nash
#7. Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental.
Ogden Nash
#8. Don't Cry Darling, It's Blood All Right
Ogden Nash
#9. How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the trick? How did I get so old so quick?
Ogden Nash
#10. Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I.
Ogden Nash
#11. How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!
Ogden Nash
#12. 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
Ogden Nash
#13. A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ogden Nash
#14. There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful,
And who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
Ogden Nash
#15. 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.
Ogden Nash
#16. Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't.
Ogden Nash
#17. Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.
Ogden Nash
#18. Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!
Charles Ogden
#20. Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Ogden Nash
#21. I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
Ogden Nash
#22. There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.
David Ogden Stiers
#23. Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.
David Ogden Stiers
#24. Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
Ogden Nash
#25. A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash
#26. There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.
Ogden Nash
#28. Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind, But it is very difficult to treat because it cannot even be defined, Because everything is not gold that glisters and everything is not a tear that glistens, And one man's remorse is another man's reminiscence
Ogden Nash
#29. Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.
Ogden Nash
#30. Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.
William B. Ogden
#31. 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.
Ogden Nash
#32. The dog is man's best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs underneath.
Ogden Nash
#33. Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
Ogden Nash
#34. 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
#35. Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.
Ogden Nash
#36. Then here's to the heartening wassail, Wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.
Ogden Nash
#37. Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.
Ogden Nash
#38. Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
David Ogden Stiers
#39. A dog's best friend is his illiteracy.
Ogden Nash
#40. There is one fault that I must find
With the twentieth century.
And I'll put it in a couple of words;
Too adventury.
What I'd like would be some nice dull monotony
If anyone's gotony.
Ogden Nash
#41. Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.
Ogden Nash
#42. He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance.
Ogden Nash
#43. There's nothing that keeps it's youth
So far as I know, but a tree and the truth
Ogden Nash
#44. One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.
Ogden Nash
#45. He is sharp," admitted the colonel, "but that's all there is to him. He can wiggle and squirm like a snake; but he's got no dignity, and no learnin', and what he don't know about law would make a book bigger than the biggest dictionary you ever saw." "Land's
George W. Ogden
#46. One thing about the past. It's likely to last.
Ogden Nash
#47. Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money?
Ogden Nash
#48. Which the Chicken and Which the Egg?
He drinks because she scolds, he thinks;
She thinks she scolds because he drinks;
And nether will admit what's true,
That he's a sot and she's a shrew.
Ogden Nash
#49. I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.
Ogden Nash
#50. My fellow man I do not care for.
I often ask me, What's he there for?
The only answer i can find
Is, Reproduction of his kind.
Ogden Nash
#51. There once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, 'Why pick on my eyes? It's my heart that dictates my decision.'
Ogden Nash
#52. It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.
David Ogden Stiers
#53. I was born a jackdaw; why should I try to be an owl?
Ogden Nash
#54. 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.
Ogden Nash
#55. Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.
Ogden Nash
#56. Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.
Ogden Nash
#57. A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.
Ogden Nash
#58. The pathogen-free pig is considered a possible candidate,
Jenni Ogden
#59. Senescence begins
And middle-age ends
The day your descendants
Outnumber your friends
Ogden Nash
#60. When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.
David Ogden Stiers
#61. Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature ... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.
Ogden Nash
#62. I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point ... ?
Harry raised his wand, looked directly at Umbridge, and imagined her being sacked.
Expecto Patronum!
The silver stag erupted from the end of his wand and cantered the length of the hall.
J.K. Rowling
#63. A Caution to Everybody
consider the Auk.
Becoming extinct before because he forgot out to fly and could only walk.
Consider Man, who may well become extinct,
Because he forgot how to walk and learned to fly before he thinked.
Ogden Nash
#64. There may be luck in getting a good job-but there's no luck in keeping it.
J. Ogden Armour
#65. The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.
Ogden Nash
#66. 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.
Ogden Nash
#67. I could not eat a kangaroo. But many fine Australians do. Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs Prefer him in tasty kangaroo-meringues.
Ogden Nash
#68. Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it.
Ogden Nash
#69. I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
Ogden Nash
#70. If you only enjoy the journey of writing, that's reward enough.
Deray Ogden
#71. 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.
Ogden Nash
#72. There was a young man of Herne Bay
who was making some fireworks one day:
but he dropped his cigar
in the gunpowder jar.
There was a young man of Herne Bay.
Ogden Nash
#73. The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Ogden Nash
#74. Hark to the sky of a seagull!
He cries because he's not an eagle.
Oh, what if you were you silly he-gull?
What would you say to your she-gull?
Ogden Nash
#75. To keep one's marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up. - Ogden Nash
Meg Cabot
#76. Progress is a fine thing, but it's gone on long enough.
Ogden Nash
#77. Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty.
Ogden Nash
#78. Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.
Ogden Nash
#79. To Tom Carlson or his dog-depending on whose taste it best suits.
Ogden Nash
#80. I have an idea that the phrase "the weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm. - OGDEN NASH
Daniel G. Amen
#81. Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash
#82. When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.
Ogden Nash
#83. The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
Ogden Nash
#84. The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.
Ogden Nash
#86. I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.
David Ogden Stiers
#87. Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.
Ogden Nash
#88. It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
David Ogden Stiers
#89. Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.
David Ogden Stiers
#90. 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
#91. Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..
Ogden Nash
#92. When a lady's erotic life is vexed God knows what God is coming next.
Ogden Nash
#93. Snow is all right while it is snowing; it is like inebriation because it is very pleasing when it is coming, but very unpleasing when it is going.
Ogden Nash
#94. I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
Ogden Nash
#95. You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.
David Ogden Stiers
#96. He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.
Ogden Nash
#97. Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures
take them, George, they're yours!
Ogden Nash
#98. Philo Vance / Needs a kick in the pance.
Ogden Nash
#99. What's nice about both clouds, and art, is that you can look at them and just resonate. That can be good for both the heart and the mind.
Ogden W. Rogers
#100. Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.
Ogden Nash
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