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LSlawlibrary: The ant has made a name illustrious,
Because of industry industrious.
So what? Would you be calm and placid,
If you were full of formic acid?
(Ogden Nash)
PocketHistory: Nash, Ogden. 1902-71. US humorist poet. One Touch of Venus 1943. “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.”
RickLondonGreen: A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. ~Ogden Nash
TYRANTBOOKS: Ogden Nash reads Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man
chikuwa100q_bot: 10. Candy is dandy/ but liquor is quicker. [Ogden Nash]
MCLEBoard: Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
-Ogden Nash
RickLondonGreen: A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. ~Ogden Nash
MelanieJaxn: Winter is the king of showmen,
Turning tree stumps into snowmen
&houses into birthday cakes
&spreading sugar over lakes.
Smooth&clean&frosty white,
The world looks good enough to bite.
That’s the season to be young,
Catching snowflakes on your tongue.
-Ogden Nash
marylolagouge: A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. ~Ogden Nash
jprapke: A Word to Husbands by Ogden Nash
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.
chikuwa100q_bot: 10. Candy is dandy/ but liquor is quicker. [Ogden Nash]
Spill_Words: Common Cold
a poem by Ogden Nash
Go hang yourself, you old M.D.!
You shall not sneer at me.
Pick up your hat and stethoscope,
Go wash your mouth with laundry soap;
I contemplate a joy exquisite
I'm not paying
weatherStorey: I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern
unstoned.
-- Ogden Nash, "Everybody's Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
aleph_nought: or not (‘very like a whale’, ogden nash)
Poem2Poem: To keep your marriage brimming / With love in the loving cup, - Ogden Nash
NiedriaKenny: Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you. – Ogden Nash
Read more:
LaDigitalRadio: Selling secondhand books at our church bazaar, I got into an argument with a prospective customer. He was interested in buying The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash but claimed it was overpriced at 35 cents. Other paperbacks were selling for ten or 15 cents each.
SanSip: I do not wish to be blithe, / I wish to recoil and writhe. / I will revel in cosmic woe, / And I want my woe to show.
- Ogden Nash (courtesy The Atlantic’s James Parker)
getwitquick: One would be in less danger
From the wiles of the stranger
If one's own kin and kith
Were more fun to be with.
- Ogden Nash
bats1234: Behold the hippopotamus!
We laugh at how he looks to us,
And yet in moments dank and grim,
I wonder how we look to him.
Peace, peace, thou hippopotamus!
We really look all right to us,
As you no doubt delight the eye
Of other hippopotami.
— Ogden Nash, "The Hippopotamus"
chipster22a: A Word To Husbands
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
tonyangelcyn: ogden nash -
"Let us pause to consider the English. Who when they pause to consider themselves they get all reticently thrilled and tinglish, because every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz; that to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is".
Gsgoh1970: A Caution To Everybody
Consider the auk;
Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk.
Consider man, who may well become extinct
Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked.
by Ogden Nash
thinkerofthots: read common cold by ogden nash, it was nice
myleik: You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. - Ogden Nash
RickLondonGreen: Candy is dandy; but liquor is quicker - Ogden Nash
khhardy: Ogden Nash may be the poet best adapted for political commentary:
“In chaos sublunary / What remains constant but buffoonery?”
QuickCash4yhome: “Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.” — Ogden Nash
Poem2Poem: To keep your marriage brimming / With love in the loving cup, - Ogden Nash
HandTBristol: "I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance,
Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance."
- Ogden Nash
ahstevens1: It's called "subverted rhyme," apparently, but I am not finding any good examples (I thought Ogden Nash but can't find a good one)
historyinmoment: Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. - Ogden Nash
Cargo_Pal: A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. ~Ogden Nash
HoneysuckleWeek: Almost beats Ogden Nash’s most famous short poem. About the supposed short memory of fishes... called Ode to a Goldfish... ‘It goes a little something like...
DrSteveDunmire: "There is one fault that I must find
With the twentieth century.
And I’ll put it in a couple of words:
Too adventury.
What I’d like would be some nice dull monotony,
If anyone’s gotony." - Ogden Nash, American Poet
Also true of 2020.
scottpegan: “Some insects feed on rosebuds,
And others feed on carrion.
Between them they devour the earth.
Bugs are totalitarian.”
-Ogden Nash
UnixFortuneBot: People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it. -- Ogden Nash
ColinTheMathmo: Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. -- Ogden Nash.
MelanieJaxn: May I join you in the doghouse, Rover?
I wish to retire till the party's over.
Since three o'clock I've done my best
To entertain each tiny guest. My conscience now I've left behind me,
And if they want me, let them find me...
-Ogden Nash
H3Richard: Common Cold
a poem by
Ogden Nash
Go hang yourself, you old M.D.! You shall not sneer at me. Pick up your hat and stethoscope, Go wash your mouth with laundry soap; I contemplate a joy exquisite I'm not paying you for your visit. I did not call you to be told My malady […]
chikuwa100q_bot: 10. Candy is dandy/ but liquor is quicker. [Ogden Nash]
MaestroClassics: Free poetry & literature curriculum guide based on the Ogden Nash verses for the Carnival of the Animals CD/MP3
RickLondonGreen: Candy is dandy; but liquor is quicker - Ogden Nash
ApollosDoreen: Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't yours.
Ogden Nash.
Burning_Airline: With apologies to Ogden Nash who didn’t ever write sucky poetry.
aristo__plato: A family is a unit composed not only of children but of menwomenan occasional animaland the common cold. - Ogden Nash - family ciliolate
historyinmoment: Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. - Ogden Nash
Poem2Poem: To keep your marriage brimming / With love in the loving cup, - Ogden Nash
RickLondonGreen: A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. ~Ogden Nash
GondwanaLodges: "Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!" - Ogden Nash
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naatak: Ogden Nash's master piece about going to a dentist is given a Hindi makeover by Ritwik Verma!
AdamStrauss81: There should be an Ogden Nash bot.
FictionTweetter: The shortest poem in English is "Ode to the Antiquity of Microbes," by the comic writer Ogden Nash: "Adam had'em"
Kamakshi_Tandon: The trouble with a kitten is that
Eventually it becomes a cat. -- Ogden Nash
GitaMadhu: Isabel met an enormous bear,
Isabel, Isabel, didn’t care;
The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous,
The bear’s big mouth was cruel and cavernous.
The bear said, Isabel, glad to meet you,
How do, Isabel, now I’ll eat you!
Gary_Loper: Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive ~ Ogden Nash
PaulExcell: “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.”
Ogden Nash
The beautiful colours of autumn
welfordwrites: Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. Ogden Nash
PhilSpeculates: Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
Ogden Nash.
The same is true for certain anniversaries
Poem2Poem: To keep your marriage brimming / With love in the loving cup, - Ogden Nash
LarryCuffe: I love it. Do you know 'A Drink With Something in it.' by Ogden Nash? If not it's worth looking for
bermudezs: Here’s a song for you… The Perfect Husband by Ogden Nash
commodityinsite: Ogden Nash, humorous poet and author one said:
“When you are wrong admit it. When you are right keep your mouth shut.”
Wise words for these times!
fortune_unix: A bit of talcum Is always walcum -- Ogden Nash
AllonShevat: No, it’s not what the barber rubs on Daddy,
It’s more like an elderly finnan haddie,
Or, shall we say, an electric fan
Blowing over a sardine can.
Ogden Nash
weatherStorey: The trouble with a kitten is that
When it grows up, it's always a cat
-- Ogden Nash.
aristo__plato: Certainly there are things in life that money can't buybut it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money? - Ogden Nash - funny tromometric
RickLondonGreen: Candy is dandy; but liquor is quicker - Ogden Nash
MaestroClassics: Free poetry & literature curriculum guide based on the Ogden Nash verses for the Carnival of the Animals CD/MP3
Joankhurody: Been enlivening dark days with the verses of Ogden Nash. "Candy is Dandy" a collection published in 1983. It has cheered me often over the years. Love this quote -
"Home is heaven and orgies are vile
But I LIKE an orgy once in a while."
tarzanajoe: Ogden Nash and e e Cummings are my heroes.
RickLondonGreen: A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. ~Ogden Nash
Poem2Poem: To keep your marriage brimming / With love in the loving cup, - Ogden Nash
Sybil_Traverso: Time is like the ocean, always there, always different. ~Ogden Nash
jesirae: But I am quite sure that if Abraham Lincoln (Rep.) ran against Thomas Jefferson (Dem.)
Neither man would be appealing enough to squeeze a vote out of them."
- "Election Day is a Holiday".... Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
rhadaway: Steve Carell / was made to yell -Ogden Nash
JayAllenSanford: Animator David Silverman is interviewed by John Badham about the making of his 1982 short "The Strange Case of Mr. Donnybrook's Boredom," based on the poem by Ogden Nash
iTrishLane: Candy is dandy but
Liquor is quicker!
-Ogden Nash
missystry1: "The trouble with with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat" Ogden Nash
Mbalgare: "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up". - Ogden Nash
marylolagouge: A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. ~Ogden Nash
KyleLWhite: "...my field--the minor idiocies of humanity."-Ogden Nash
Cargo_Pal: A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. ~Ogden Nash
freemp31: "I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovey as a tree
in fact unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all!"
(Ogden Nash)
...Also love Simon Drew
Fosters_mom_14: The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly." -Ogden Nash
Key1857: A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor, Ogden Nash.
BJR98138: Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.― Ogden Nash
CapuciOusmane: Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. - Ogden Nash
tawqmo: Here's a Halloween appropriate poem by my favorite poet, Ogden Nash
Poem2Poem: To keep your marriage brimming / With love in the loving cup, - Ogden Nash
WillBlackWriter: Another via Ogden Nash
Parsley is gharsley
Actually its not that bad
It's just meh
What is 'gharsley'
Is not being about to grow parsley
Or corn
Or wheat
Or apples
Or oranges
Or peppers
Or strawberries
Or animal feed
Or other things that sustain societies
welfordwrites: A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. Ogden Nash
TedJoy71: I wish I could take credit, but that goes to Ogden Nash, probably America's greatest poet, along with Don Marquis.
No joking.
Read some more of Nash's stuff here:
RocketFuelBTC: To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup;
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
You say it best when you say nothing at all.
RickLondonGreen: Candy is dandy; but liquor is quicker - Ogden Nash
historyinmoment: Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. - Ogden Nash
KHandozo: Story time, because I feel like it: When my eldest was in preschool, he dressed as a "wicked knight" (from the Ogden Nash poem "Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight") for Halloween.
amitavakumar: On a cold and dreary rain-soaked morning, here is a poem by Ogden Nash:
I love the Baby Giant Panda;
I'd welcome one to my veranda.
thecob82: Ogden Nash response to endless stream of moronic 2020 Staten Island House race campaign commercials
"No Thonx"
Mr. Rose and Ms. Maliotakis.
All I knows, they both a hack is.
