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Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.

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Women would rather be right than reasonable.

Funny, Inspiration, Reasonable, Right, Women

Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our children.

Children, Lasts, Life, Parent, Parents, Spend

When a lady's erotic life is vexed God knows what God is coming next.

Coming, Erotic, Knows, Next, Sex, Vexed

People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when. . . People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.

Die, Different, Eye, Know, Men, People

Some hate broccoli, some hate bacon I hate having my picture taken. How can your family claim to love you And then demand a picture of you?

Claim, Hate, Love You, Picture, Taken

Then here's to the heartening wassail, Wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.

Drinking, Glasses, Heart, Master, Wassail, Wherever

Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.

Mind, Remorse, Violent

In the world of mules there are no rules.

Horse, Mules, Rules, World

Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art.

Art, Hate, Kiddie, Love, School

But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.

Arrived, Children, Father, Hark, Mother

I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

Claim, Love, Saint, Valentine, Valentines Day

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.

Clever, Decks, Life, Lives, Plated, Sex

A lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty up- set if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her.

Exactly, Ifs, Lady, Like Her, Pretty, Want

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.

Children, Family, Naive, Parents, War, Web

People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.

Fond, Funny, Inspirational, People, Telling, Witty

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

Basket, Basketball, Fit, Games, Zoos

Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't.

Natural, Smallpox, Vaccine, Vaccines

Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today.

Cousin, Fell, Good, May, Science, Termite

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

Beer, Candy, Dandy, Drinking, Funny, Quicker

The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?

Camels, Hump, Single, Two, Way

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