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Edward Lear has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights;
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There was an Old Man of Columbia, Who was thirsty, and called out for some beer; But they brought it quite hot,…
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There was an Old Person of Brussels, Who lived upon Brandy and Mussels; When he rushed through the town, he knocked most…
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There was an old man of Orleans, Who was given to eating of beans; Till once out of sport, he swallowed a…
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I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so,…
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They danced by the light of the moon.
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They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends…
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In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle-…
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And if you voz to see my roziz As is a boon to all men's noziz, - You'd fall upon your back…
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A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising howling…
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There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom…
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There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a…
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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.
— Mark Twain
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A jug fills drop by drop.
— Gautama Buddha
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Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the…
— Glenn Gould
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... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed…
— Roger McGuinn
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...after using your stuff on a jug band full of instruments, all I can say is Thank You Dr. Duck !...
— John Sebastian
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I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of…
— Andrew Jackson
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People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring…
— Sarah Hall
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In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle-…
— Edward Lear
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Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again…
— Gautama Buddha
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What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a…
— Charles Kuralt
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And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree....…
— Pietro Aretino
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