Ogden Nash Quotes

When you're wrong admit it, when you're right, shut up.

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off; humbly admitting mistakes disarms.

Potency does not mean being unnecessarily aggressive; one has to be wise.

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

I've learned when to speak out. You do have to learn when to bide your time and when to speak out, and I don't always get it right.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

I am very close to my family. I have learned a lot from my father. He used to tell me to be honest with yourself and not to argue with your seniors. You don't need to be involved in any quarrel, as sometimes you need to remain silent intelligently.

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

If you're an actor, and you're selfish and not strong, it's difficult to maintain a good personal life or a solid career, and I was selfish and had a lot of anger that went way back.

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

When my wife gets mad at me, I remind myself that she is much smarter than I am and so I probably deserve it, even if I don't really understand it!

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish within yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

The whole world knows, that, when a wrong stings a man, making him fierce and loud, his direct expressions have often small value; but that his parenthetical expressions often have great value. This is one of the simplest principles in homely every-day-criticism, serving truth-seekers, wherever wordy war rages, whether among statesmen or hackmen.