ThursdayAug 06, 2026
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Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 - May 19, 1971) was an American poet best known for writing pithy and funny light verse.
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
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.
Door: What a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Women would rather be right than reasonable.
Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.
The turtle lives twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.
Time is like the ocean, always there, always different.
Certainly there are lots of things in life that money wont buy, but its very funny Have you ever tried to buy them without money?
Some primal termite knocked on wood; and tasted it, and found it good. That is why your Cousin May fell through the parlor floor today.
I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly if he has income and she is pattable.
There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but Im afraid its heading in the wrong direction.
Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.
He tells you when you've got on too much lipstick, And helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
Here lies my past. Good-bye I have kissed it; Thank you, kids. I wouldn't have missed it.
Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I.
Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.
Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like Im in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was.
There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth I think that perhaps its the gin.
There was a young belle of old Natchez Whose garments were always in patchez. When comment arose On the state of her clothes, She drawled, 'When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez!'
I was born a jackdaw; why should I try to be an owl?
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.
I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder.
I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.
There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze, And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees.
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.
One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If ones own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time they trot sideaways.
Discretion is the better part of virtue, Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
Children arent happy with nothing to ignore, And thats what parents were created for.
The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
Candy Is dandy But liquor Is quicker.
When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.
Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer
How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the trick? How did I get so old so quick?
When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez.
I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.
To be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
There are some people who are very resourceful At being remorseful, And who apparently feel the best way to make friends Is to do something terrible and then make amends.
Senescence begins And middle age ends, The day your descendents, Outnumber your friends.
No, you never get any fun Out of the things you haven't done.
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
If I could but spot a conclusion, I should race to it.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.
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.
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