The best Quotes by Ogden Nash

The best Quotes by Ogden Nash

Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces.

To keep your marriage brimming, whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

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Old Bay.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Maryland - and that's pretty much the same thing.

It's the way it works: Love plus time minus distance equals hate.

Louis C. K. - 2017

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Relationships Marriage

A happy marriage doesn't mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means you've chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both.

Fawn Weaver

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Relationships Perfection Marriage

Lucy, every marriage is a dance; complicated at times, lovely at times, most the time very uneventful. But with Mickey, there will be times when your dance will be on broken glass. There will be pain. And you will either flee that pain or hold tighter and dance through it to the next smooth place.

Ka Hancock in Dancing on Broken Glass

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Relationships Marriage

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.

Jacqueline Bisset

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Love Relationships Marriage

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Marriage is like a coffin and each kid is another nail.

Homer Simpson in The Simpsons - Season 14 Episode 2

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Insurance is like marriage. You pay and pay, and never get anything back!

Al Bundy in Married... with Children

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Marriage Insurances

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Boris Pasternak

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

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