Ogden Nash Poet Quotations

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

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

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

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

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

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

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

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.

Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or produceful

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat.