Frases de Ogden Nash
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Frederic Ogden Nash foi um poeta estadunidense conhecido por sua poesia humorística.

Por ocasião de sua morte, vítima da doença de Crohn, o New York Times publicou: "Ogden Nash, cujo verso divertido com suas rimas não convencionais fez dele o mais conhecido produtor de poesia humorística do país, morreu ontem no Hospital Johns Hopkins, em Baltimore.





== Referências == Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Agosto 1902 – 19. Maio 1971
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Ogden Nash: 130 citações1 Curtida

Ogden Nash Frases famosas

“Uma porta é o que o cão sempre está do lado contrário.”

Ogden Nash

A door is what the dog is perpetually on the wrong side of
"The private dining room, and other new verses"‎ - Página 69, de Ogden Nash - Editora Little, Brown, 1953 - 169 páginas

“Meia-idade é quando já se conheceu tanta gente, que cada pessoa que se conhece lembra alguém.”

Ogden Nash

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
"Versus‎" - Página 14, de Ogden Nash - Editora Little, Brown, 1949 - 169 páginas

“A dificuldade com um gatinho é que, eventualmente, ele se torna um gato.”

Ogden Nash

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat
The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash‎ - Página 72, de Ogden Nash - Editora Little, Brown and company, 1940 - 352 páginas

“Adam
Had 'em.”

Ogden Nash

Misattributed

Ogden Nash: Frases em inglês

“Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.)
Is planning a ban on smut.”

Ogden Nash

Smoot Smites Smut
Contexto: Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.)
Is planning a ban on smut.
Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut.
And his reverend occiput.
Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut.,
Grit your molars and do your dut.,
Gird up your l__ns,
Smite h_p and th_gh,
We'll all be Kansas
By and by.

“Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?”

Ogden Nash

"Good-by, Old Year, You Oaf or Why Don't They Pay the Bonus?" in The Primrose Path (1935)

“I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.”

Ogden Nash

"A Clean Conscience Never Relaxes"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

“How easy for those who do not bulge
To not overindulge!”

Ogden Nash

"A Necessary Dirge"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

“The further through life I drift
The more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.”

Ogden Nash

"A Penny Saved Is Impossible"
Good Intentions (1942)

“This poem has widely been credited to Nash as a poem with the title "Fleas", but is actually the work of Strickland Gillilan and was originally titled "Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes.”

Ogden Nash

It has been dated to at least 1927 http://www.fun-with-words.com/shortest_poem.html, as published in the Mt Rainier Nature News Notes (1 July 1927). <br class="br">Misattributed

“Behold the hippopotamus!
We laugh at how he looks to us,
And yet in moments dank and grim,
I wonder how we look to him.”

Ogden Nash

&quot;The Hippopotamus&quot; http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/848.html

“May I join you in the doghouse, Rover?
I wish to retire till the party's over.”

Ogden Nash

Many Long Years Ago (1945), Children's Party

“Good wine needs no bush,
And perhaps products that people really want need no
hard-sell or soft-sell TV push.
Why not?
Look at pot.”

Ogden Nash

"Most Doctors Recommend or Yours For Fast Fast Fast Relief" in The Old Dog Barks Backwards (1972)