Contemporary-romance Quote by Elle Lothlorien

Limericks don't come from Limerick. But it comes from that between the verses when they used to have those competitions that they would put…

— Malachy McCourt

My father was adept at making up limericks about place names we encountered on holidays or others using the names of new people we…

— Michael Rosen

Writing limericks gives us a playground, a release from these conventions.

— Michael Rosen

“There was an old bastard named Lenin Who did two or three million men in. That's a lot to have done in But where…

— Robert Conquest

“Imagine a landscape of nothing but astrology references and naughty limericks. That's what you're going to reduce me to.”

— Chloe Neill

“There once was a beautiful young woman from the city. She told everyone that she did not believe in gravity. She jumped off a…

— Robert Chad Canter

If you sit down to write a limerick, you find yourself straddling two histories: the history of the limerick form itself, which stretches back…

— Michael Rosen

“A wonderful bird is the Pelican. His beak can hold more than his belly can. He can hold in his beak Enough food for…

— Dixon Lanier Merritt

“Nev tossed his pen down. “Fine. Here goes: Ren and Cals lives may be torrid for the young ones in Vail are quite horrid…

— Andrea Cremer

“Watching you at work, I was reminded of the young lady of Natchez, whose clothes were all tatters and patches. In alluding to which,…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“It was all kind of fuzzy, as if his mind was doing its thinking in limericks.”

— Sorin Suciu

“Every woman is a living poem... Most men are limericks!”

— José N. Harris