Limerick Quotes
10 quotes by 9 authors
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Most women loathe limericks, for the same reason that calves hate cookbooks.
— Gershon Legman
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Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have…
— Eamon de Valera
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H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are no slouches, either.…
— Bill Barich
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I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and…
— Jill Scott
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In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old…
— Kevin Barry
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A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a…
— Jonathan Stroud
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Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. "Are you all right?" "Yes. Sorry," he whispered. "I'm just having an attack of limericks."…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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At one o’clock, the ever-logical Right-Eye Grand Steward woke up to discover that during his sleep his left-eyed counterpart had executed three of his advisors…
— Frances Hardinge
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In my very early days as a journalist, as a cub reporter on a local newspaper, I used to cover the district courthouse in Limerick…
— Kevin Barry
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When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I…
— Jon Scieszka
Who Wrote These Limerick Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 10 Limerick Quotes as follows: