Ogden Nash Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.

  Ogden Nash

  Family, Children, War

  1940 The Face Is Familiar,'Baby, What Makes the Sky Blue'.

• Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!

  Ogden Nash

  Children, Dark, Ducks

• No, you never get any fun
  Out of the things you haven't done.

  Ogden Nash

  Children, Fun, Done

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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

  Ogden Nash

  Family, Children, Parenting

  "Happy Days". Book by Ogden Nash, 1933.

• Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder,
  Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives
  being embarrassed by our parents and the last part
  being embarrassed by our children.

  Ogden Nash

  Children, Parent, Lasts

  "What I Know About Life". "Versus". Book by Ogden Nash, 1949.

• The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher,
  Were each of them once a kiddie.
  A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature.
  Do I want one? God Forbiddie!

  Ogden Nash

  Teacher, Children, Want

• The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.

  Ogden Nash

  Children, Fire, Waiting

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

• But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.

  Ogden Nash

  Mother, Children, Father

  Ogden Nash (1936). “The bad parents' garden of verse”

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