Rhymed Quotes

#1. For the most part I felt nothing but scorn for an art form that required the pretense that it was natural for people to communicate with one another in rhymed song.

Joel Derfner

#2. The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.

Berton Braley

#3. Can you believe the man rhymed 'Rumplestiltskin' with 'crumpled napkins'?

Christopher Healy

#4. Florentino Ariza wrote everything with so much passion that even official documents seem to be about love. His bills of lading were rhymed no matter how he tried to avoid it, and routine business letters had a lyrical spirit that diminished their authority.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#5. Henry James rhymed Fellowship with the gesture of biting a neglected apple, and Ovid a scarlet curtain with the skin of Atalanta.

Hugh Kenner

#6. He planned for his son or daughter to have three or four toys, minimal sports equipment, and a thousand books. He didn't care for the rhymed nonsense of Dr. Seuss, but preferred anything that instilled basic knowledge sets. He could abide a talking animal, but not an inanimate object that spoke.

John Brandon

#7. Record collection, with all those lifetimes and desires rhymed and distilled into two or three minutes of a song.

Michael Ondaatje

#8. Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like ducking glass mole.

Cassandra Clare

#9. We live in a period of great polarities: in art, in public policy, in morality. In poetry, art seems, at one extreme, rhymed good manners, and at the other, chaos.

Louise Gluck

#10. Everyone's life is a poetry rhymed with sweet and bitter words, rhythmed with moments.

Robert Ahaness

#11. In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.

Joanna Newsom

#12. Thoughts are ideas scattered in your head. When written forms a sentence. When rhymed, it forms a phrase and singing it blooms a beautiful poem.

Ymatruz

#13. The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Robert Morgan

#14. Just as you say, sir. There is a letter on the tray, sir."
"By Jove, Jeeves, that was practically potry. Rhymed, did you notice?

P.G. Wodehouse

#15. He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because "night" and "starlight" rhymed, but he had a feeling the poem wouldn't turn out that well ...

Cassandra Clare

#16. JOURNEY: If someone pulls out a dong, then I'm gone.
JUSTICE: Rhymed.

Bijou Hunter

#17. There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,
is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. Here lies Valkyrie Cain, who died heroically after falling of a train." At least it rhymed.

Derek Landy

#19. There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

Thomas Carlyle

#20. All these people - the people of the English mother's side - had been of condition more or less eminent; yet with oddities and disparities that had often since made Maria, thinking them over, wonder what they really quite rhymed to. It

Henry James

#21. But if all else fails, I can always write her a sonnet." "A sonnet?" said Hugh. "No woman can resist having her name rhymed with a flower in iambic pentameter," said Daniel.

Helen Simonson

#22. I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment.

W. Somerset Maugham

#23. I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in every ale-house and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same.

King Edward VIII

#24. For all of his early promise on a law school faculty and his seat in the Illinois Senate, Obama in 2002 had no money, no political organization and a name that rhymed with the world's most famous terrorist.

Anonymous

#25. First of all, you're dead. Secondly, I cut off your head. Thirdly... yes, I know that rhymed, you really don't have to tell me.

Gayle Ramage

#26. They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.

Max Roach

#27. To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.

Philip Sidney

#28. Joseph Beringer ... dances around behind me singing some poorly rhymed and slightly dirty song about my [racing] odds at my skirts.
'I don't even wear skirts,' I snap at him.
'Especially,' he says, 'in my daydreams.

Maggie Stiefvater

#29. Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

David Ives

#30. The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.

Marianne Williamson

#31. We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by legal means, by democratic means.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#32. I think it's keeping a surprise element, so that the audience never gets ahead of you. I like to pull the rug out from audiences, I don't like for them to think they know what's happening next.

Jason Graae

#33. Great indeed is Fear; but it is not, as our military enthusiasts believe and try to make us believe, the only stimulus known for awakening the higher ranges of men's spiritual energy.

William James

#34. It's not that I think the Nazis were right, or anything. It's just that, we weren't there, we don't know.

Zach Braff

#35. Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

Barbara Kingsolver

#36. I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.

Marie Antoinette

#37. that backsliding generally first begins with neglect of private prayer. Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without

J.C. Ryle

#38. There'll be a little metal fleck in the football, so you can tell for sure whether the guy with the ball got over the goal line or was pushed back.

Tex Schramm

#39. You cannot teach a person who knows everything.

Debasish Mridha

#40. Brand is much more than a name or a logo. Brand is everything and everything is brand

Dan Pallotta

#41. I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

Charles Spurgeon