Ogden Nash Quotes

Some age, others mature.

You are going to grow up whether you want to or not. It requires no effort.

Time is what turns kittens into cats.

The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.

Things change. Nothing ever stays the same, yo. You ain't never gonna stay 25 or 30 or 40. You always gonna change. Every day, you change.

As you grow and get older, you evolve.

I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

As we get older, we demand stories that go somewhere. Things must change.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

All of us grow.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

As you grow older, you change.

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

It's not humanly possible for anyone not to go through changes. Change is a constant in everyone's life, even in mine. I have enjoyed the change at every stage of my life.

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.