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
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?
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
Hark to the whimper of the seagull. / He weeps because he's not an ea-gull. / Suppose you were, you silly seagull. / Could you explain it to your she-gull?
Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or produceful
My verse represents a handle I can grasp in order not to yield to the centrifugal forces which are trying to throw me off of the world.
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.
Middle age ends and senescence begins, The day your descendants outnumber your friends
Someone invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumber, Ringing wrong but similar numbers
Malt does more than Hubbard did to help us look into the Id
To be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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.
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.