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
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.
Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.
The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.
If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.
A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.
Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Malt does more than Hubbard did to help us look into the Id
Middle age ends and senescence begins, The day your descendants outnumber your friends
Someone invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumber, Ringing wrong but similar numbers
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.
To be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.