387 Quotes by Ogden Nash

Every new year is the direct descendant, isn’t it, of a long line of proven criminals?

Maybe I couldn’t be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.

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.

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

Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.

Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain’t.

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.

A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books – Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.

Then here’s to the heartening wassail, Wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.