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
There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze, And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees.
It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts, That all sin is divided into two parts. One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important
The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
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.
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.
Middle age ends and senescence begins, The day your descendants outnumber your friends
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.
Malt does more than Hubbard did to help us look into the Id