mint - news•May 18
Ogden Nash Quote of the Day: Why we work to buy freedom from work | Today News
Ogden Nash, born Frederic Ogden Nash in Rye, New York, in 1902, became one of America’s best-known writers of light verse. Mental Floss and LibQuotes connect it to Nash’s poem “More About People,” while Goodreads lists it under Hard Lines but notes that Goodreads quotes are community-added and not independently verified. Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2026 found that only 20% of employees worldwide were engaged in 2025, with low engagement estimated to cost the global economy around $10 trillion in lost productivity.
