Quote

So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and combat Over everything debatable and combatable Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.

Ogden Nash

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ogden Nash
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: May 19
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
New York
United States
Frederic Ogden Nash
Hope
Wives
Littles
Combat
Little
Debate
Everything
Particularly
Debatable
Believe
Income
Incompatibility
Life
Continue
Spice
Husband
Spices
Wife
Husbands

More quotes by Ogden Nash

Image
The noblest lord is ushered in By the practicing physician, And the humblest lout is ushered out By a certified mortician. And in between, they find their foyers Alive with summonses from lawyers.
Ogden Nash
Image
Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. 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
Image
They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
Ogden Nash
Image
At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jog I joggle.
Ogden Nash
Image
Smallpox is natural vaccine ain't.
Ogden Nash
Image
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.
Ogden Nash
Image
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor.
Ogden Nash
Image
He is not drunk, who from the floor, can rise and stand and shout for more
Ogden Nash
Image
Celery, raw, Develops the jaw
Ogden Nash
Image
Too much Chablis can make you whablis.
Ogden Nash
Image
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
Image
A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.
Ogden Nash
Image
He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.
Ogden Nash
Image
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
Image
When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.
Ogden Nash
Image
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.
Ogden Nash
Image
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
Image
Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite. That’s the season to be young, Catching snowflakes on your tongue. Snow is snowy when it’s snowing, I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going.
Ogden Nash
Image
The only way I can distinguish proper from improper fractions is by their actions
Ogden Nash
Image
This is my dream, It is my own dream, I dreamt it. I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.
Ogden Nash