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
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
The only way I can distinguish proper from improper fractions/ Is by their actions.
To be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Gives us ham and pork and Bacon. Let others think his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.
A man is quite dishonorable to sell himself, For anything other than quite a lot of pelf
You scour the Bowery, ransack the Bronx,/ Through funeral parlors and honky-tonks./ From river to river you comb the town/ For a place to lay your family down.
Any kiddies in school can love like a fool,/ But hating, my boy, is an art.
Bankers are just like everyone else only richer.
Bankers are just like anybody else, except richer
Now, anybody whom a German hates, He presently exterminates, But he who exterminates a French Is never safe from Gallic revenge, But he who gets even with a German Is obliterated like a vermin