Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
- Ogden Nash
Marriage, Two People, Other, Alliance
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
Woman, Some, Idea, Overwhelm
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.
- Ogden Nash
Think, Lovely, I Think, Billboards
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
Age, Middle, Saturday, Rings
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
- Ogden Nash
Happiness, Itch, Having, Scratch
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
- Ogden Nash
Sin, Only, Should, Grin
Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
- Ogden Nash
New, Year, Line, Long Line
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
Work, Money, Want, Enough Money
Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
- Ogden Nash
Mind, Think, Late, Maturing
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
- Ogden Nash
Think, Web, Tangled, Naive
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
- Ogden Nash
Candy, Quicker, Dandy, Liquor
I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.
- Ogden Nash
Another, Saint, Valentine, Claim
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
- Ogden Nash
Regret, Bed, Bodies, Reluctance
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
- Ogden Nash
New, Middle, Many, Reminds
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
- Ogden Nash
Dogs, Tongue, Mothers, Prune
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
- Ogden Nash
Work, Standing, Standing Up, Sitting
Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
- Ogden Nash
Belong, Most, Convinced, Viz
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
- Ogden Nash
Think, I Think, Feed, Ought
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
- Ogden Nash
Man, Been, Having, Waxed
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
- Ogden Nash
Achieve, Conscience, Clear, Terrestrial
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
- Ogden Nash
Children, Parenting, Were, Invented
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
- Ogden Nash
People, Want, Telling, Fond
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
Feel, Very, Best Way, Terrible
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
- Ogden Nash
My Life, Making, Which, All My Life
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Children, Were, Created, Parents
No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
- Ogden Nash
Never, Get, Things, Fun
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
- Ogden Nash
Some, Debts, Retiring, Fun
Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
- Ogden Nash
Voters, About, Commitments, Hurt
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
- Ogden Nash
Happiness, Exciting, Most, Forces
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
- Ogden Nash
Children, Common, Unit, Composed
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
- Ogden Nash
Man, Another, Remorse
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
- Ogden Nash
Mind, Violent, Remorse
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
- Ogden Nash
Door, Side, Perpetually, Wrong Side
I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
- Ogden Nash
News, Like, Been, Wrong
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
Love, Marriage, Shut, Wrong
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
- Ogden Nash
Pet, Cat, Kitten, Trouble
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
- Ogden Nash
Funny, Been, Once, Alright
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
- Ogden Nash
Buy, Very, Certainly, Buying
Too clever is dumb.
- Ogden Nash
Dumb, Too, Clever
Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
- Ogden Nash
Men, Get, Cares, Professional
Women would rather be right than reasonable.
- Ogden Nash
Rather, Than, Would, Reasonable
The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
- Ogden Nash
End, Cow, Other, Milk
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