Creative Quotations from . . .
Ogden Nash
(1902-1971) born on
Aug 19
US poet. He was noted for off-beat poems like "Candy is Dandy, But Liquor Is Quicker."
         
   
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F
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.

R
God in His wisdom made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why.
A
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.
N
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance/Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
K
Professional men, they have no cares;
whatever happens, they get theirs.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Song of the Open Road."
R: In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
A: "The Parents."
N: In "Reader's Digest," Jun 1967.
K: In "Correct Quotes for DOS," WordStar International, 1991.
 

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