Top 275 Verses Quotes & Sayings

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses

The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. Probably this is the only house in the town where verses are composed, which are afterward printed in a circular form, but not published. I was shown quite a long list of verses which were composed by some young men who had been detected in an attempt to escape, who avenged themselves by singing them.

Poisinet's verses are like spoiled children - loved only by their father.

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding.

I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put them away tenderly because I had been happy near them, and take them out by turns when I was going from home, to cheer them by the change of air and the pleasure of the new place. This, not for the sake of the verses written in them, and not for the sake of writing more verses in them, but from pure gratitude.

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses. I think for me it's about what you leave out [rather] than what you put in. I'm not sure that the songs help me figure anything out so much as they're a distillation of the original question.

I've been writing verses For 60 years...phew! And d'yer know why I did it? T'was especially for you

Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.

Some artists send their verses, and others record in my studio. Depends. I prefer them being there.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric.

We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Loads of verses don't make it into the finished song.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.

Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk.

In Islam, the word of the Prophet is final. No true Muslim can disown these verses or say that they would rewrite the offensive verses of the Koran. If they do, then they would have to run for their lives.

I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses might be death metal.

We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at on the page. That isn't the case. While that's important, context is so much wider than a handful of verses.

A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.

As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.

Juicy J was always one of my favorites. For one, he was a producer and I just used to love how he came on his verses every time.

I hate doing features because rappers take forever to get you their verses.

You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.

Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves!

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.

There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: 'Kill them wherever you find them.' (2:191) Referring to such verses, there are some who attempt to give the impression that Islam is a religion of war and violence. This is total untrue. Such verses relate in a restricted sense, to those who have unilaterally attacked the Muslims. The above verse does not convey the general command of Islam. (pp. 42-43)

You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses.

I'm not looking for Bible verses to back up a lifestyle of passiveness. I'm looking for Bible verses and life experiences to teach me to live more radically for Christ.

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD.

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.

I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.

Leaving Verses Poems Quotes To say goodbye Isn't a pain Unless you're never going...! (Tee hee)

I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get in that room and start taking some of those verses off.' Yeah, I took six verses off.

In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.