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
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
No, you never get any fun Out of the things you haven't done.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.