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
Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money?
How Sunday into Monday melts!
Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how.
Women would rather be right than reasonable.
One bliss for which There is no match Is when you itch To up and scratch.
Shake and shake The catsup bottle. None will come, And then a lot'll.
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.
Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.
Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.
There is one fault that I must find With the twentieth century. And I'll put it in a couple of words; Too adventury. What I'd like would be some nice dull monotony If anyone's gotony.
O thrice unhappy home Whose master doesn't know the difference between a watt and an ohm!
Time is like the ocean, always there, always different.
Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.
Home is heaven and orgies are vile, But I like an orgy, once in a while.