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
I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.
Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.
When you're wrong admit it, when you're right, shut up.
When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!
Too much Chablis can make you whablis.
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
If some confectioners were willing To let the shape announce the filling, We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs, Bitten into and returned to the box.