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.
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the trick? How did I get so old so quick?
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.
An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
The camel has a single hump;/ The dromedary, two;/ Or else the other way around./ I'm never sure. Are you?
The moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but if some kind of sin you must be pursuing, Well, remember to do it by doing rather than by not doing.