Home is heaven and orgies are vile, But I like an orgy, once in a while.

In Nash’s characteristic light verse, the couplet plays on the tension between conventional morality and private appetite. “Home is heaven” invokes the ideal of domestic virtue, while “orgies are vile” echoes public condemnation of excess. The punchline—“But I like an orgy, once in a while”—undercuts that piety with a candid, comic admission, suggesting that human desire routinely outpaces social ideals. The humor depends on the abrupt reversal and the exaggerated word “orgy,” which functions less as literal reportage than as a deliberately scandalous emblem of indulgence. The result is a wry portrait of hypocrisy, self-awareness, and the periodic urge to escape respectability.