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A source page for quotes linked to Ogden Nash.
“Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental.”
“You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.”
“He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.”
“Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.”
“At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jog I joggle.”
“Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.”
“Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.”
“Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how.”
“Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.”
“I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face.”
“The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.”
“When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.”
“O thrice unhappy home Whose master doesn't know the difference between a watt and an ohm!”
“But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.”
“The old men know when an old man dies.”
“When a lady's erotic life is vexed God knows what God is coming next.”
“Neath tile or thatch That man is rich Who has a scratch For every itch.”
“One bliss for which There is no match Is when you itch To up and scratch.”
“Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.”
“How Sunday into Monday melts!”