Showing posts with label Ogden Nash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ogden Nash. Show all posts

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Quotes

"The trouble with a kitten is that
when it grows up, it's always a cat."
- Ogden Nash


"I was sleeping the other night,
alone, thanks to the exterminator."
- Emo Phillips

"A single question can be more influential
than a thousand statements."
- Bo Bennett

"Life is something that happens
when you can't get to sleep."
- Fran Lebowitz

"I look at what the phone company
does and do the opposite."
- Craig Newmark

A little simplification would be the first
step toward rational living, I think.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Quotes

"Ability will never catch up
with the demand for it."
- Malcolm Forbes

"Human history becomes more and more a
race between education and catastrophe."
- H. G. Wells

"Writing books is the closest
men ever come to childbearing."
- Norman Mailer

"I spent a year in that
town, one Sunday."
- George Burns

Jared: "Takes more than flesh
and blood to be human."
- Nemesis (1993)


"A door is what a dog is perpetually
on the wrong side of."
- Ogden Nash

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Quotaria

"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how
many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."
- Susan George

"Even in winter an isolated patch
of snow has a special quality."
- Andy Goldsworthy


"God is not dead but alive and well and
working on a much less ambitious project."
- Anonymous


"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV,
you can only be one of two kinds of human
beings, either a liberal or a conservative."
- Kurt Vonnegut

"Middle age is when you've met so many
people that every new person you meet
reminds you of someone else."
- Ogden Nash

"Thieves respect property. They merely wish
the property to become their property that
they may more perfectly respect it."
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Friday, March 13, 2009

Quotaria

"A conservative is a man who
sits and thinks, mostly sits."
- Woodrow Wilson

"If the English language made any sense, a
catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur."
- Doug Larson

"Parents were invented to make children
happy by giving them something to ignore."
- Ogden Nash

"The word 'politics' is derived from the
word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word
'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'."
- Larry Hardiman

"It's better to have loved and lost than to
have to do forty pounds of laundry a week."
- Laurence J. Peter

"Everyone rises to their
level of incompetence."
- Laurence J. Peter

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Quotes

"Money can't buy love, but it improves
your bargaining position."
- Christopher Marlowe

"To the artist there is never
anything ugly in nature."
- Auguste Rodin


"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote."
- Edward Young

"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages
will be thought of as including our own."
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"People who have what they want are fond
of telling people who haven't what they
want that they really don't want it."
- Ogden Nash

"Laugh and the world laughs with
you, snore and you sleep alone."
- Anthony Burgess