Quotes About Limericks

#1. Madeline: Form of poetry.
Olly: that assumes that I have one
Madeline: You're not a heathen.
Olly: limericks
Madeline: You are a heathen. I'm going to pretend you didn't say that.

Nicola Yoon

#2. How quickly bodies came to love each other, promise themselves to each other always, without asking permission. From the mind! If only she could give up her mind, let her heart swell, inflamed, her brain stepping out for whole days, whole seasons, her work shrinking to limericks.

Lorrie Moore

#3. 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 he did one in
That old bastard Stalin did ten in.

Robert Conquest

#4. It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.

Cassandra Clare

#5. That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.

James Herriot

#6. I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

Stephen Hawking

#7. I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

Glenda Jackson

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

Chloe Neill

#9. 'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.

Feist

#10. Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Winston S. Churchill

#11. Watching you at work, I was reminded of the young lady of Natchez, whose clothes were all tatters and patches. In alluding to which, she would say, Well, Ah itch, and wherever ah itches, Ah scratches.

P.G. Wodehouse

#12. 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 in the refrain, "follow me up, follow me up, follow me up to Limerick Town."

Malachy McCourt

#13. Most women loathe limericks, for the same reason that calves hate cookbooks.

Gershon Legman

#14. I'll have your fucking job for this, you animal-raping, backwoods, hillbilly

Shyloh Morgan

#15. He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape.

Dejan Stojanovic

#16. We had contests to see who could write the dirtiest limericks while I was living with my father's war-band by the border. I don't particularly enjoy losing, so I took it upon myself to become good at them.

Sarah J. Maas

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

Sorin Suciu

#18. Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

John Huston

#19. Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line.

Betty White

#20. 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."
Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip; only her deepening dimple betrayed her. "Shhh," she said, with feeling.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#21. I never wore high heels in my hometown.

Liu Wen

#22. Uh-oh, I hope he doesn't start rattling off dirty limericks next; she'll probably burn the hotel down.

Elle Lothlorien

#23. We sent so many risque pictures to each other that I was pretty sure after that year I could pick out Jag's penis in a police lineup any old day.

Harper Bentley

#24. My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy, the European Union.

Michael Gove

#25. One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.

Black Elk