387 Quotes by Ogden Nash

I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don’t try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don’t ever look over your shoulder.

Some people’s money is merited and other people’s is inherited.

One thing about the past. It’s likely to last.

I don’t mind their having a lot of money, and I don’t care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

Miranda in Miranda’s sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty.

The codfish is a staple food For which I’m seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.

He is not drunk, who from the floor, can rise and stand and shout for more.

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!

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation’s slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.