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
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for
I prefer to forget both pairs of glasses and pass my declining years saluting strange women and grandfather clocks.
Home is heaven and orgies are vile/ But you need an orgy, once in a while.
Daybreak is one of the greatest disadvantages of living under the solar system: It means having to get up almost the very minute you go to bed, And bathe and shave and scrub industriously at your molar system And catch a train and go to the office an
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.
We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.
When a lady's erotic life is vexed God knows what God is coming next.
A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.
Neath tile or thatch That man is rich Who has a scratch For every itch.
Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.
One bliss for which There is no match Is when you itch To up and scratch.
A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.
If called by a panther, don't anther.