Ogden Nash
An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.
Family: A unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
Candy
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.
- All from Ogden Nash, 1902 - 1971
About:
The American poet Frederick Ogden Nash was at Rye, New York on 19 Aug in 1902. After family finances prevented him from finishing even a year at Harvard, he struggled as a school teacher (a class of 14-year-olds caused too much stress), bond broker (he sold but one bond in 18 months, and that to his godmother), advertising copywriter, children's book author (The Cricket of Carador sold only 900 copies), but finally thrived as an editor at Doubleday. He dashed off some very silly poetry to relieve office boredom, his boss suggested he send a few to the New Yorker where he was first published in 1930. He never was able to sell his more serious poetry, which forced him to write over 1500 pieces that amused us, and a little prose to quote.
More:
http://www.aenet.org/poems/ognash1.htm
http://www.westegg.com/nash/
Family: A unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
Candy
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.
- All from Ogden Nash, 1902 - 1971
About:
The American poet Frederick Ogden Nash was at Rye, New York on 19 Aug in 1902. After family finances prevented him from finishing even a year at Harvard, he struggled as a school teacher (a class of 14-year-olds caused too much stress), bond broker (he sold but one bond in 18 months, and that to his godmother), advertising copywriter, children's book author (The Cricket of Carador sold only 900 copies), but finally thrived as an editor at Doubleday. He dashed off some very silly poetry to relieve office boredom, his boss suggested he send a few to the New Yorker where he was first published in 1930. He never was able to sell his more serious poetry, which forced him to write over 1500 pieces that amused us, and a little prose to quote.More:
http://www.aenet.org/poems/ognash1.htm
http://www.westegg.com/nash/
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