Top 25 Light Verse Quotes
#1. If you can't master yourself, someone else will.
Travis Luedke
#2. The garden was full of sorrow
Songbirds and unusual winds whistled a rhyme
Clouds caused to appear and cast down darkness
For this was the first day the sun didn't shine
John E. Wordslinger
#3. We ought to live each day as though it were our last day here below. But if I did, alas, I know it would have killed me long ago.
Piet Hein
#4. It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.
Gisele Bundchen
#6. The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.
James Fenton
#7. We strove for a name,
while the light of the lamps burnt thin
and the outer dawn came in,
a ghost, the last at the feast
or the first,
to sit within
with the two that remained
to quibble in flowers and verse
over a girl's name.
H.D.
#9. Did you know the bear idea of courtship is to kidnap their mates off the streets? Surely not. Surely yes.
Nalini Singh
#10. One of your greatest protections against making bad choices is to not put on any mask of anonymity.
Quentin L. Cook
#11. It's a rather joyous song," Cohen said when Various Positions was released. "I like very much the last verse - 'And even though it all went wrong, / I'll stand before the Lord of Song / with nothing on my lips but Hallelujah!
Alan Light
#13. If Jonah had gone to Yale,
Instead of the gut of a whale,
He'd have a diploma,
A better aroma,
And a nice little condo in Vail.
M.J. McGuire
#14. Kevin James is going to do a couple of specials. One's called It's Getting Muggy In Here.
Andy Kindler
#15. In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.
Jane D. Hull
#16. Starlight beats when heart twinkles
Youthful sky beyond cloudy wrinkles
Muse of glory to flame the night
Verse inscribed as written light
Munia Khan
#17. As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.
Elbert Hubbard
#18. I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.
Alec Baldwin
#19. Chaos is Peace ... Blackness, blackness intolerable, before the beginning of the light. This is the first verse of Genesis. Holy art thou, Chaos, Chaos, Eternity, all contradictions in terms!
Aleister Crowley
#20. The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.
Joseph Joubert
#21. And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?.
William Wilberforce
#22. Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.
Joan Aiken
#23. Even the Sovereign couldn't change History, but he could decide how History was interpreted ...
Heidi Ruby Miller
#24. You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.
Russell Baker
#25. She was a born liar, Hope thought. It was incredible. She should skip the modeling career and go straight to politics. "I
Elin Hilderbrand
