111 ordspråk av Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash
Ogden Nash föddes den
19 augustus 1902 och dog den 19 mei
1971 - of humorous poetry who won a large following for his audacious verse.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. 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.
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Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it
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Now, anybody whom a German hates, He presently exterminates, But he who exterminates a French Is never safe from Gallic revenge, But he who gets even with a German Is obliterated like a vermin
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think their children are naïve.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence
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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
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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Parsley is gharsley
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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
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People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it
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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
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Poets aren't very useful Because they aren't consumeful or produceful
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs
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Progress may have been all right once, but it has gone on too long
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Purity is obscurity.
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