If some confectioners were willing
To let the shape announce the filling,
Wed encounter fewer assorted chocs,
Bitten into and returned to the box. – Ogden Nash
I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers. – Ogden Nash
Middle age is when youre sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isnt for you. – Ogden Nash
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. – Ogden Nash
And so, Reader, (for it is time to have done with guessing) would I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers