Rhyme Quotes

“I feel a little dizzy," said Orion. "But also wonderfully elated. I feel that I am on the verge of finding a rhyme for the word orange."

"Oxygen deprivation," said Foaly. "Or maybe it's just him.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex

“I box in yellow Gox box socks.”
― Dr. Seuss, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

“One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

“One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told.
~ Simon”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

“It is not until you rhyme with a person that makes you their perfect match, it is when you are satisfied with each others peculiarities, and find jewels in their loopholes.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.
Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine...”
― Celia Rees, Witch Child

“How many miles to Babylon?
Three-score and ten.
Can I get there by candle-light?
Yes, there and back again.
If your heels are nimble and light,
You will get there by candle-light”
― Seanan McGuire, An Artificial Night

“Can you believe the man rhymed 'Rumplestiltskin' with 'crumpled napkins'?”
― Christopher Healy, The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom

“You ask me why I don't speak
Not a word at will
But write so much worth well over a mill'
Well I value words like I value kisses
A sober one, a closer one penetrates the heart
Darling it's how it mends it”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“If I knew what to do
I'd do more than write a song for you”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“Discharge my followers; let them hence away,
From Richard's night to Bolingbrooke's fair day.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-
To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

“Before reaching Grassy Butte, though, Dad spied a farmhouse with two pumps in the drive and a red-and-white sign out front saying DALE'S OIL COMPANY. Another sign said CLOSED, but a light was on in the house and Dad pulled in, saying, "I believe we might prevail on Dale. What do you think?"
"Prevail on Dale," I repeated to Swede.
"To make a sale," she added.
"And if we fail, we'll whale on Dale--"
"Till he needs braille!"
"Will you guys desist?" Dad asked.”
― Leif Enger, Peace Like a River

“Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day,
Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.”
― Anonymous

“Whenever I speak to a group, I always ask, “God, what is it You want me to say?” 
 
Over and over, and as if for the first time, He says, “Make sure . . .” 
 
I lean in, curious, totally forgetting the last twenty times. “Make sure of what?” 
 
“Make sure you tell them,” He pauses for effect, “that I love them.” ”
― Elizabeth Bristol, Mary Me: One Woman’s Incredible Adventure with God

“I struggled with anxiety and loneliness, even in a crowded room. I never felt like I was enough. I ate Tums like candy. And I know this sounds all beauty-contestant-answerish, but I just wanted inner peace, a place to come in out of the rain. I needed, well, God, really, but you couldn’t have told me that then, not until the crap hit the fan. You know, those no-one-can- save-you-but-God things? An actual life or death experience. I’m not kidding, I didn’t think I was going to live, but instinctively I cried out and BAM! There God was, not judgmental and mean, but the ultimate friend. He came through in a big way! I’ll be honest with you, I flippin’ drank the Kool-Aid. ”
― Elizabeth Bristol, Mary Me: One Woman’s Incredible Adventure with God

“And now he is singing a bard's curse upon you, O brother abbot, and upon your father and your mother, and your grandfather and your grandmother, nd upon all your relations.'
Is he cursing in rhyme?'
He is cursing in rhyme, and with two assonances in every line of his curse.'
("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast")”
― William Butler Yeats

“Princess, princess, youngest daughter,
Open up and let me in!
Or else your promise by the water
Isn’t worth a rusty pin.
Keep your promise, royal daughter,
Open up and let me in!”
― Philip Pullman, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version

“Because to him, who ponders well,
My rhymes more than their rhyming tell
Of the dim wisdoms old and deep
That God gives unto man in sleep”
― W.B. Yeats, When You Are Old: Early Poems and Fairy Tales

“I, Larry Vail, do hereby confess
To murdering Merry in her little dress.
To strangling and raping and making a mess.
To all of these charges the answer is yes.”
― Rosalyn Drexler, The Line of Least Existence and Other Plays

“If the heart doesn't find a perfect rhyme with the head, then your passion means nothing.

The OKR framework cultivates the madness, the chemistry contained inside. It gives us an environment for risk, for trust, where falling is not a fireable offense- you know, a safe place to be yourself.

And when you have that sort of structure and environment, and the right people, magic is around the corner.”
― John Doerr, Measure What Matters

“Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.”
― Peter Porter

“FiXXX ur Recep+ion

I never bother
with the broken antennas
Reception comes
through clearly for those not jealous
Love life alone;
don't buy extra large umbrellas
We can hold hands

if
you can pick up
what i put down-
motherfucker,
don't make a sound

Loud with ac+ion
will my real dark prince please stand up...

Avoidance-void
bores me to death; living dead girl
Beat 'round the bush
I'm not UR around the way girl
Slam dance; slam words
passion's a thing- give it a whirl
We can ignite

if
you can get down
burn; shut me up
motherfucker,
and don't give up

Fight for your right
what's your message; no ads disrupt”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Suckerpunching Spite

“The past is gone, but today is here, and the future is yet to come, so it doesn't deserve our fear...”
― Rokaya Muhammad Afifi, Blurred Starlight: Volume 3

“Oh, this is Dorothea. Sorry about that, Dotty”
― Wren Jones, Damsels and Dinosaurs

“We don't know how to rhyme
but damn we try.”
― Lady Gaga, Always Remember Us This Way (Arizona Sky) from A Star Is Born (2018) Sheet Music

“Consider this warning with care:
Rabbits are beasts beyond compare!”
― Michal Stawowski, The Piglet with the Rocket Rear: And Other Rollicking Rhymes

“The Yearning Steeple by Stewart Stafford

God hesitates to take the kindest;
The recycled tradeoff ending life,
Heaven's thundering, fiery stage,
Echoes Calvary's conflicted strife.

Undeserved things appear guided,
To the apex altruists of all people,
Finding beacons in cast down flame,
That guide us to our final steeple.

A world masquerades as meritocracy,
In its numbing gales, forge aesthetics,
"Leaders" tease our carrot cravings,
"Rewards" crack mirrors of core ethics.

Random flip of the Reaper's coin?
Tidal fades of the mirage of youth,
The story routinely ends the same.
We slake our thirst with unclean fruit.

© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford