The Fifty Most Quoted Lines of Doggerel. 50. The
mind has its own little place, all to itself: Can make a Heaven of Hols, a Hols
like Heaven. (Milton) 49. Full fathom
five thy fibula lies. (Shakespeare) 48. If
your keeper can keep your lead when all about you are losing theirs (Kipling) 47. How do I love thee? Let me count the whistles.
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning) 46. If
music be the food of love, let’s play bone. (Shakespeare) 45. We
few, we happy few, we band of borzois. (Shakespeare) 44. What is this
life if, empty of care,/We have no time to stand and stare. (W.H. Davies) 43. The unmoving Shih
Tzu shites; and, having shat,/Moves on. (Fitzgerald) 42. They also
serve who only stand and woof. (Milton) 41. The quality
of mincemeat is not strained. (Shakespeare)
40. In Xanadu dida Kupla Kanines a Stainless Pleasure Bowl
devour (Coleridge) 39. Frengles, Roamins,
Corgidors, lend me your ears. (Shakespeare) 38. Shall
I compère thee through this summer’s day. (Shakespeare) 37. Season
of missed-yous and shaggy fitfulness. (Keats) 36. A thing of
beauty is a jog forever. (Keats) 35. Do not go
gentle into that good bite. (Dylan Thomas) 34. Busy old heinzer,
unruly stray. (Donne) 33. Stop
all the clocks, cut up the chicken bones. Dinner time! (Auden) 32. Human kind cannot
bear very much reliability. (Eliot) 31. O Romeo,
Romeo; woofwoof arooooo Romeo! (Shakespeare) 30. The labrador
doth protest too much, methinks. (Shakespeare) 29. The old layabout:
Dolce and Decorous yes. (Owen) 28. Arouse is arouse
is arouse is arouse. (Gertrude Stein) 27. When I am an
old woman I shall walk poodles. (Jenny Joseph) 26. I think that
I shall never see/A poem lovely as a pekinese. (Joyce Kilmer) 25. Hope springs
eternally upon the human breast. (Pope) 24. When in
disgrace without fortune biscuits in men's eyes. (Shakespeare) 23. I grow old...
I grow old...I shall tear the bottoms of their trousers ROFL. (Eliot) 22. 'The time has
come', the Whippet said,'To baulk at many things'. (Lewis Carroll) 21. A
narrow feline in the grass. (Dickinson) 20. Beauty
is truth, truth beauty; is that all? (Keats) 19. To be or not
to be, is that a question? (Shakespeare) 18. In Philanderer’s
fields the puppies plow. (McCrae) 17. The proper study of mankind is mandatory. (Pope) 16. A
little teasing is a dangerous thing. (Pope) 15. But at my
back I always hear Time’s wingèd retrieval stick hurrying near. (Marvell) 14. Candy’s for
dandies and liquor, city slickers. (Ogden Nash) 13. My mistress’
eyes are nothing like her sunnies. (Shakespeare) 12. Things
fall apart; the scents have gone cold. (Yeats) 11. Because I
could not stop for death I blindly stepped forever forward. (Dickinson)10. Tis better to
have loafed unloosed /Than never to have loafed at all. (Tennyson) 9. Look on my
works, ye mighty, and declare ‘Good boy!’ (Shelley) 8. To strive, to
seek, to find, to wag the tail, and not to yield, much. (Tennyson) 7. Dream softly
because you dream of my treads (Yeats) 6. Not with a bark
this time but a kind of extended low-level industrial whining mixed with grump-snorts
and a grumbling sort of growly whimper. (Eliot) 5. And smiles to
go before I sleep. (Frost) 4. I wandered cloudily
as a loon. (Wordsworth) 3. The dog is faith
in the man. (Wordsworth) 2. The
master is the ‘I am’ of my fate. (Henley) 1. To errrrr is
human; to forage, divine. (Pope)
The source for this list is Mark Forsyth’s blog ‘The Inky Fool’:
https://blog.inkyfool.com/search?q=most+quoted+lines