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.
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.
I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.
Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.
The dog is man's best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs underneath.
People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when ... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.
A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.
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.
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.