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
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
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?
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.
Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.
When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.
Progress may have been all right once, but it has gone on too long
Beneath this slab/ John Brown is stowed./ He watched the ads,/ And not the road.
Some tortures are physical and some are mental, but the one that's both is dental.
Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,/ Is those things arms, or is they legs?/ I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou, I'd call me Us.
Every Englishman knows one thing - that to be an Englishman is the best thing there is.
Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.