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
In the words of the poet, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, this erstwhile youth replies, I just can't
Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!
Snow is all right while it is snowing; it is like inebriation because it is very pleasing when it is coming, but very unpleasing when it is going.
It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin, That lays eggs under your skin.
The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.
People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.
Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant's outnumber your friends.
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
I test my bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so frigid upon the fundament.
If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
No man is greater than his respect for sleep.
So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.
If some confectioners were willing To let the shape announce the filling, We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs, Bitten into and returned to the box.
I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.