Ogden Nash Quotes

Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.

My job, my mission, what I have been put on this planet for is to save wildlife.

No wild beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

I think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, around a lot of animals. I feel for them.

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

I'd love to see that rat nose smashed!

To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

I got an ant farm. Them fellas didn't grow anything. Hey, how about some celery? Plus, if I tore your legs off, you would look like snowmen.

Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU!

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.

I think war is a dangerous place.

Congratulations you're 18!... On a list of 20 people I'm going to kill.

Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well.

I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match "It's a fight to the finish". That's a good place to end.

A tough guy told me, "I'll bet you $10 you're dead." I was afraid to bet him.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

The bullfighter who torments a bull to death and then castrates it of an ear has neither proved nor increased his own virility; he has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.

I tried to walk into Target, but I missed. I think the entrance to Target should have people splattered all around.

Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.