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Best 14 Quotes by Ogden Nash

“Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.”

“Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore, and that’s what parents are created for.”

“Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.”

“God in His wisdom made the fly, and then forgot to tell us why.”

“Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.”

“I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.”

“One man’s remorse is another man’s reminiscence.”

“People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven’t what they want that they really don’t want it.”

“The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.”

“There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.”

“To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.”

“Too clever is dumb.”

“Women would rather be right than reasonable.”

“You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.”

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