Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

He returned to St. He also wrote a poem called "more about people" which criticises employers who ill treat others. Nash was the lyricist for the Broadway musical One Touch of Venus collaborating with librettist S.

The best of his work was publiOgden Nashd in 14 volumes between 1931 and 1972. 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". Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19 1902 – May 19 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse.