Ogden Nash Quotes
The old men know when an old man dies.
Nash, Ogden. The Private Dining Room and Other Verses. Little, Brown and Company, 1952, p. 60.
Where societies have elderly people in households, it tells us much about the values of the society and the culture. In some societies, people do not live to be elderly, and in others, those that do are not very much respected.
He was a senior military officer in the Jacobin rebellion. He became the last person in Great Britian whon was executed by beheadung, although the law did not abolish it until the 20th century, He was 80 years old at the time of his execution and was quite feeble.
Frederic Ogden Nash 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.
