Ogden Nash

Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet best known for writing pithy, funny, light verse.

Quotes

Some of Nash's verses have almost become proverbial:

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:The Camel has a single hump,

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:The dromedary two,

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:Or is it just the other way,

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:I'm never sure -- are you?

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:Candy is dandy;

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:But liquor is quicker

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:I think that I shall never see

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:A billboard lovely as a tree;

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:Indeed, unless the billboards fall

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:I'll never see a tree at all

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:(This a parody of the poem Trees by Joyce Kilmer)

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:Philo Vance

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:Needs a kick in the pants

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Once when interviewed on his arrival in San Francisco, he said:

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:"May I boil in oil

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:And fry in Crisco

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:"If I ever call

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:"San Francisco 'Frisco'"

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