The trouble with a kitten is that it eventually becomes a cat.
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Ogden Nash
American poet known for light verse and unconventional rhyme in The New Yorker. Published more than twenty collections; lived 1902–1971.
15 quotes
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other, milk.
Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental.
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to bed with reluctance, yet once there, we do not want to leave.
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.