Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash
Frederic Ogden Nashwas an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, The New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry". Nash wrote over 500 pieces of comic verse. The best of his work was published in 14 volumes between 1931 and 1972...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth19 August 1902
CityTown Of Rye, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.
Abracadabra, thus we learn The more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given, The less you lead, the more you're driven, The more destroyed, the more they feed, The more you pay, the more they need, The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.
He is not drunk, who from the floor, can rise and stand and shout for more
I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.
The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.
Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.
If called by a panther, don't anther.
Bankers are just like everyone else only richer.
Too much Chablis can make you whablis.
But all ladies think they weigh too much.
Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.
Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.