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
There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze, And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees.
A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.
And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.
No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.
Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.
In the world of mules there are no rules.
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.
Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.