Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. – Ogden Nash
Some primal termite knocked on wood;
and tasted it, and found it good.
That is why your Cousin May
fell through the parlor floor today. – Ogden Nash
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers. – Ogden Nash
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it. – Henry David Thoreau