A Quote by Ogden Nash

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.

Ogden Nash

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Discipline Door Enter Flies Grandparents Out Window

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Ogden Nash
American - Poet
August 19, 1902 - May 19, 1971

When perfect frankness comes in at the door love flies out of the window.

Helen Rowland

Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window

Aesop

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

Oscar Wilde

One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.

Michael Ende

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Montesquieu

At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.

Rumi

When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.

Theodore Roosevelt

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When one door closes, find another." Kylie gazed back up. "And what if there isn't another door?" "Then you try the window." "And if there's not a window?" Kylie asked. "Then you find a sledgehammer and make a window.

C.C. Hunter

Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.

Groucho Marx

Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window.

Mu Xin

Hey! Leave the door open will ya? The flies haven't been out all day.

Redd Foxx

If I see a spider in the flat, I try to get a cup and a piece of paper and throw it out of the window. I can't kill them because they're good for catching flies.