Ogden Nash föddes den 19 augustus1902 och dog den 19 mei 1971 - of humorous poetry who won a large following for his audacious verse. Mer info via Google eller Bing.
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
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.
Some people's money is merited/ And other people's is inherited.
Some tortures are physical and some are mental, but the one that's both is dental.
Someone invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumber, Ringing wrong but similar numbers
Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker
Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,/ Is those things arms, or is they legs?/ I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou, I'd call me Us.
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
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