Limerick Quotes

“There was a young man who said 'God must find it exceedingly odd to think that the tree should continue to be when there's no one about in the quad.' Reply: 'Dear Sir: Your astonishment's odd; I am always about in the Quad. And that's why the tree will continue to be, since observed by, yours faithfully, God.'”

“There was an Old Man with a beard, / Who said, 'It is just as I feared!— / Two Owls and a Hen, / Four Larks and a Wren, / Have all built their nests in my beard!'”

“There was a Young Lady whose chin, / Resembled the point of a pin; / So she had it made sharp, / And purchased a harp, / And played several tunes with her chin.”

“There was an Old Man of Thermopylæ, / Who never did anything properly; / But they said, 'If you choose / To boil eggs in your shoes, / You shall never remain in Thermopylæ.'”