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 most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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.
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.
I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.
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?
Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer
My verse represents a handle I can grasp in order not to yield to the centrifugal forces which are trying to throw me off of the world.
When you're wrong admit it, when you're right, shut up.
Beneath this slab/ John Brown is stowed./ He watched the ads,/ And not the road.
Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't.
Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.