Quotes of Ogden Nash

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God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

- Ogden Nash

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“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. ”

- William Arthur Ward

“ That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ Do the best, give the best and leave the rest to run after you! ”

- Garima Yonzon

“ ?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ”

- Voltaire

“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire

“ Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. ”

- Cynthia Hand

“ Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ”

- Jeb Dickerson

“ Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ As powerful as your genetic combination is in determining the outcome of your life, your decisions are more powerful. You will ultimately look like your decisions. ”

- Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“ Love is the beauty of the soul. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato

“ And, in the end… The love you take is equal to the love you make. ”

- Paul McCartney

“ Unrequited love’s a bore. ”

- Lorenz Hart

“ One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ”

- Sophocles

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ You are attracted to the love you didn't receive as a child ”

- Jodi Ann Quarrie

“ the saddest thing is to be a minute to someone, when you've made them your eternity. ”

- Sanober Khan