Rhyme Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old rhyme quotes, rhyme sayings, and rhyme proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

My style is a one-in-a-million / I flow on and on and on / My rhymes give you a really good feeling / All day long Trevor Tahiem Smith
A nursery rhyme I take to be a rhyme that was passed on by word of mouth and taught to children before it was set down in writing and put into print. Lina Eckenstein
Spontaneous ideas on existing life, / Composed in a plethora of style and rhyme, / Absorbing loads of talent and dedicated time, / Spun meticulously with silent aggression, / Unfolding a saga of true emotions Nikhil Parekh
A persevering route of earning fodder through rhyme, / Presented as a pearl of written composition, / Is what we mean by self composed poetry. Nikhil Parekh
Into old rhyme / The new words come but shyly. / Here's a brave man / Who sings of commerce dryly. Lesbia Harford
A little rhyme about a heart that's bleeding— / Of lonely hours and sorrow's unrelief: / I smiled at first; but there came with the reading Ella Wheeler Wilcox
So these same rhymes shall still be told / To children yet unborn, / While false philosophy growing old / Fades and is killed by scorn. Robert Graves
Listen now this time / Shortly to my rhyme / That herewith starts / About certain kind hearts / In those stricken parts Robert Graves
Our story rechristened, / linked moments in time / New legacy written / —in couplets of rhyme Kurt Philip Behm
The old-fashioned verse with intentional rhymes. / And quite out of date, too, is rhythmical metre; / The critics / declare it an insult to art. / But oh! the sweet swing of it, oh! the clear ring of it, / Oh! the great pulse of it, / right from the heart, / Art or no art. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
And then on the gray granite precipice burst; / And I knew as I counted, while other waves mounted, / I knew the tenth billow would rhyme with the first Ella Wheeler Wilcox
But the really meaningful rhymes are those you create yourself. Doreen du Boulay
Children love nursery rhymes, despite the fact that many rhymes do not make sense in modern-day language. Bobbie Wilson
These nursery Rhymes having been handed down from generation to generation, contain many old Sinhalese words, some of them being no longer is use. Heather Hamer
A chronology of culture, / A reflection of life and time, / Expressed in rhythm and rhyme. Omar H. Malik
Emotions in rhyme / Tends to be / Thoughts and feelings / Felt by me Carol Sue Sorensen Thavenet
A rhyme doesn't make a song. Dorothy Fields
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. Jean Giraudoux
Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck, 'Tis fatal to thy fame and to thy neck. John Dryden
Rhyme is an attempt to reassemble and reaffirm the possibility of paradise. There is a wholeness, a serenity, in sounds coupling to form a memory. Derek Walcott
You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics. Mos Def
Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole purpose of the poem is to enable us to remember some information. James Fenton
Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to. James Fenton
Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop. Gene Weingarten