Ogden Nash

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#children #cold #common #composed #family

He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#experience-to-let #jail #prison #repentance #experience

Elephants are useful friends: they have handles on both ends. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#humor

Where there is a monster, there is a miracle. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#imagination #monster #monsters #imagination

Too clever is dumb. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#dumb #too

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#been #gone #long #might #once

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#becomes #cat #eventually #kitten #trouble

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early? ↗

— Ogden Nash

#late #maturing #mind #simply #think

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#alliance #birthdays #forgets #never #other

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

#bodies #bundle #early #every #every night