Ogden Nash
Poet, Author
1902 – 1971
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Who was Ogden Nash?
Ogden Nash was a screenwriter, lyricist and poet.
Famous Quotes:
- A flea and a fly
- Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.
- If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
- They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
- And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.
- The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
- One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
- A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
- To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
- Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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- Born
- Aug 19, 1902
Town of Rye - Also known as
- Frederic Ogden Nash
- Nash, Ogden
- Parents
- Spouses
- Frances Rider Leonard
(1931/06/06 - 1971/05/19)
- Frances Rider Leonard
- Children
- Ethnicity
- White American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
(1920 - ) - St. George's School, Newport
- Harvard University
- Lived in
- Baltimore
- Died
- Mar 19, 1971
Baltimore
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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