Quotable Quotes - Rhyme

"Glories, like glow worms
Afar off shine bright
But looked to near
Have neither heat nor light."


"But liars we can never trust
'Tho they should speak the thing that's true
And he that does one fault at first
And his, to hide it, makes it two."


"Question not but live and labour
'Til your goal be won
Helping every feeble neighbour
Seeking help from none.
Life is mostly froth and bubble
Two things stand alone
Kindness in another's trouble
Courage in your own."


"When lonely woman stoops to folly
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy
What art can wash her guilt away?
The only art her guilt to cover
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentence to her lover
And wring his bosom - is to die."


"Oh, don't the days seem dark and long
When all goes right and nothing goes wrong?
And isn't your life extremely flat
With nothing whatever to grumble at?"


"So he sighed and pined and ogled
And his passion boiled and bubbled
'Til he blew his silly brains out
And no more was it troubled."


"What is this life, if full of care
We have no time to stand and stare."


"Come in the evening
Or come in the morning
Come when you're looked for
Or come without warning."


"There was a young lady of Kent
Who said she knew what it meant
When men asked her to dine
Gave her cocktails and wine,
She knew what it meant
But she went."


"There was a young lady of Riga
Who rode with a smile, on a tiger.
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside
And the smile on the face of the tiger."


"My love in her attire doth show her wit
It doth so will become her
For every season she hath dressings fit
For winter, spring or summer.
No beauty doth she miss
When all her clothes are on
But beautys' self she is
When all her robes are gone."


"It's good to be merry and wise
It's good to be honest and true
It's best to be off with the old
Before you go on with the new."


"I slept and dreamed that life was beauty
I woke and found that life was duty."


"I feel no pain, dear Mother, now
But oh, I am so dry!
O take me to a brewery
And leave me there to die."


"Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a hunting
For fear of little men."


"Who loves not woman and song
Remains a fool, his whole life long."


"Backward, turn backward,
O time in your flight
Make me a child again
Just for tonight."


"Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close
Something attempted, something done
Has earned a nights' repose."


"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read
With loads of learned timber in his head."


"Get place and wealth
If possible, with grace.
If not, by any means
Get wealth and place."


"The learn'd is happy, nature to explore
The fool is happy that he knows no more."


"Such laboured nothings
In so strange a style
Amaze the unlearned
And make the learned smile."


"True wit, is nature to advantage dressed.
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed."


"Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is
Nor e'er shall be."


"See the happy moron
He doesn't give a damn.
I wish I were a moron.
My God! Perhaps I am."


"Auntie did you feel no pain
Falling from that apple tree?
Would you do it, please again
'Cos my friend here didn't see?"


"'There's been an accident,' they said.
'Your servant's cut in half. She's dead.'
'Indeed,' said Mr. Jones, 'and please
Send me the half that's got my keys.'"


"She was poor but she was honest
And her parents were the same
'Til she met a city feller,
And she lost her honest name."


"If all be true that I do think
There are five reasons we should drink.
Good wine, a friend, on being dry
Or lest we should be bye and bye
Or any other reason why."


"If you your lips would keep from slips
Of five things have a care
To whom you speak, of whom you speak
And how, and when and where."


"It's not the one who knows the most
Who has the most to say.
It's not the one who has the most
That gives the most away."