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
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our children.
The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!
But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.
The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.
No, you never get any fun Out of the things you haven't done.
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.
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!
Progress may have been all right once, but it has gone on too long
People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces properly if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the 25th of December