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
Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi.
Hark to the whimper of the seagull. / He weeps because he's not an ea-gull. / Suppose you were, you silly seagull. / Could you explain it to your she-gull?
I was born a jackdaw; why should I try to be an owl?
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.
Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer
Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker.
A cough is something that you yourself can't help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.
The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat.
The camel has a single hump;/ The dromedary, two;/ Or else the other way around./ I'm never sure. Are you?
They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
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.