Ogden Nash Quotes

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

The only stable thing seems to be perpetual change, where our certainties are crumbling one after the other …

When you empower people you sign up for a life of uncertainty and change.

Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent or vital has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that.

The world that we live in isn't uniform-looking, and the future that we're headed toward isn't uniform-looking.

Everything changes with time. You can't predict where you're gonna be next year; you have no idea, you know what I mean?

It's amazing how quickly things can change.

Nothing ever stays the same for very long in my life.

You can't change what time has in store for you, as the only constant that I've known is change.

Sometimes you think things are going to be forever, and then... of course, they're not.

His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.