Ogden NashThinkers

Allyship is grounded in the basic rule that one ought not befriend the oppressed unless one is prepared to take on the oppressor.

Basketball is a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

The Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret... we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

Being right is always an occassion for humility. Whenever you're wrong, admit it. Whenever you're right, shut up.

Celery is a vegetable which, when eaten raw, develops the jaw.

The Cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other, milk.

Death lightens one of life's heaviest chores - listening to bores.

The Dog is an animal that perpetually finds itself on the wrong side of doors.

A Family is a unit composed of a man, a woman, children, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

The Fingernail always grows with inconvenient speed except after broken one.