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
But all ladies think they weigh too much.
But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.
I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face.
To love is an active verb.
O thrice unhappy home Whose master doesn't know the difference between a watt and an ohm!
Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.
One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.
The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.
I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!
Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how.
Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
I think in terms of rhyme, and have since I was six years old,