Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Quote by Ogden Nash

Topics: Parents Quotes

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet...

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet...

They take the paper and they read the headlines, so they've heard of unemployment and...

They take the paper and they read the headlines, so they've heard of unemployment and...

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless...

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless...

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Hark to the whimper of the seagull. / He weeps because he's not an ea-gull....

Hark to the whimper of the seagull. / He weeps because he's not an ea-gull....

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Women would rather be right than reasonable.

Women would rather be right than reasonable.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an...

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an...

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick...

A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick...

Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it

Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the...

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the...

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era...

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era...

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.