Ogden Nash Quotes

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

Gossip is conversation about people.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

I love how humans talk.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

All animals communicate. What's special about gossip is that it's not about the here and now. You don't gossip about lions. You don't gossip about clouds. You only gossip about other people. And once you do, you can keep track of many more people - this is the basis for forming larger communities.

People think it's not necessary to talk to another human being, and that's the part of it that I don't like. Some people will go up and want to talk to you about the music, which is cool; they're enthusiastic about the songs and know stuff about it, or, 'I really like your music. Nice to meet you.'

There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.

When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.

Life would be boring without gossip.

We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.

gossip is just the small change of conversation.

There are male as well as female gossips.

I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.