The Best of Ogden Nash Quotes

“Too clever is dumb.”
― Ogden Nash, The Best of Ogden Nash

“Love is a word that is constantly heard,
Hate is a word that is not.
Love, I am told, is more precious that gold.
Love, I have read, is hot.
But hate is the verb that to me is superb,
And love but a drug on the mart.
Any kiddie in school can love like a fool,
But hating, my boy, is an art.”
― Ogden Nash, The Best of Ogden Nash

“To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.”
― Ogden Nash, The Best of Ogden Nash

“One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and metaphor.
Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons or Celts,
Can'ts seem just to say that anything is the thing it is but have
to go out
of their way to say that it is like something else.”
― Ogden Nash, The Best of Ogden Nash