Of Ogden Nash
The top flight modern satirist…the man who dislikes all the things that most of us dislike but manages to be hilariously articulate about them. – Boston Herald
I discovered the poet Ogden Nash in a literature book, and subsequently found a book of his at our local library. Some of my favorites of his are the short verses on animals.
To quote a few here:
THE RHINOCEROUS
The rhino is a homely beast,
For human eyes he’s not a feast.
Farwell, farewell, you old rhinoceros,
I’ll stare at something less prepocerous
THE FIREFLY
The firefly’s flame
Is something for which science has no name.
I can think of nothing eerier
Than flying around with an unidentified glow on a person’s posteerier.
THE TERMITE
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.
THE PORCUPINE
Any hound a porcupine nudges
Can’t be blamed for harboring grudges.
I know one hound that laughed all winter
At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.
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From comedian Jack Handy:
"It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man."
"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me."
"Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick."
"If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy."
"Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny."
"If you're robbing a bank and your pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too because, come on, life is funny."
From musicians:
"In opera, there is always too much singing." -Debussy
"Beware of missing chances; otherwise, it may be altogether too late someday." -Franz Liszt
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrius will succeed equally well." -J. S. Bach
"It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself." -J. S. Bach
"It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man."
"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me."
"Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick."
"If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy."
"Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny."
"If you're robbing a bank and your pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too because, come on, life is funny."
From musicians:
"In opera, there is always too much singing." -Debussy
"Beware of missing chances; otherwise, it may be altogether too late someday." -Franz Liszt
"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrius will succeed equally well." -J. S. Bach
"It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself." -J. S. Bach
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