They take the paper and they read the headlines, so they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread lines, and they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball

Quote by Ogden Nash

Topics: Charity Quotes, Newspapers Quotes

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone...

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone...

Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of...

Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of...

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think their children are naÃ¯ve.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think their children are naÃ¯ve.

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.

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you...

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you...

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone...

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone...

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so...

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so...

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...

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

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.

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...

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is...

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is...

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so...

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so...

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a...

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a...

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they...

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they...

Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we...

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we...

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

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...