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To keep your marriage brimming, / With love in the loving cup, / Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up
The almanac Feb 10, 2009
Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder
The almanac Aug 23, 2008
The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk
The almanac Jul 16, 2008
To keep your marriage brimming, / With love in the loving cup, / Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up
The almanac Feb 10, 2008
Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ and don't ever look over your shoulder
The almanac Aug 23, 2009
Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, the New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry".
Nash was born in Rye, New York. His father owned and operated an import-export company, and because of business obligations, the family relocated often.
His family lived briefly in Savannah, GA in a carriage house owned by Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts; he wrote a poem about Mrs. Low's House. After graduating from St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island, Nash entered Harvard University in 1920, only to drop out a year later. He returned to St. George's to teach for a year and left to work his way through a series of other jobs, eventually landing a position as an editor at Doubleday publishing house, where he first began to write poetry.