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
Husbands are things that wives have to get used to putting up with. And with whom they breakfast with and sup with. They interfere with the discipline of nurseries, And forget anniversaries, And when they have been particularly remiss, They think they can cure everything with a great big kiss.
So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and combat Over everything debatable and combatable Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life Particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.
The camel has a single hump;/ The dromedary, two;/ Or else the other way around./ I'm never sure. Are you?
Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Beneath this slab/ John Brown is stowed./ He watched the ads,/ And not the road.
Every Englishman knows one thing - that to be an Englishman is the best thing there is.
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
Any kiddies in school can love like a fool,/ But hating, my boy, is an art.
Some tortures are physical and some are mental, but the one that's both is dental.