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
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or produceful
Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
I have a bone to pick with Fate / Come here and tell me, girlie, / Do you think my mind is maturing late,/ Or simply rotting early?
Daybreak is one of the greatest disadvantages of living under the solar system: It means having to get up almost the very minute you go to bed, And bathe and shave and scrub industriously at your molar system And catch a train and go to the office an
A cough is something that you yourself can't help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.
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 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.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.