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
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money?
Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker.
The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.
Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it.
In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.
Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
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
Beneath this slab/ John Brown is stowed./ He watched the ads,/ And not the road.