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
Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or produceful
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat.
I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.
Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..
The camel has a single hump;/ The dromedary, two;/ Or else the other way around./ I'm never sure. Are you?