Quote

Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.

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
Objects
Marriage
Example
Known
Immovable
Happy
Irresistible
Force
Meeting
Meetings
Object

More quotes by Ogden Nash

Image
Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.
Ogden Nash
Image
Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.
Ogden Nash
Image
It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators all, and I recommend to you this moral: In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.
Ogden Nash
Image
The truth I do not stretch or shove When I state the dog is full of love. I've also proved, by actual test, A wet dog is the lovingest.
Ogden Nash
Image
Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it.
Ogden Nash
Image
The only way I can distinguish proper from improper fractions is by their actions
Ogden Nash
Image
Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!
Ogden Nash
Image
All that glitters is sold as gold.
Ogden Nash
Image
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ogden Nash
Image
I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.
Ogden Nash
Image
The old men know when an old man dies.
Ogden Nash
Image
Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi Consider the Empire and Gandhi.
Ogden Nash
Image
The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two Or else the other way around I'm never sure. Are you?
Ogden Nash
Image
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
Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today.
Ogden Nash
Image
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.
Ogden Nash
Image
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.
Ogden Nash
Image
Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was.
Ogden Nash
Image
A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.
Ogden Nash
Image
It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts, That all sin is divided into two parts. One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important
Ogden Nash