Samuel Lover Quotes (1797-1868)

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“Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.”

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“For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.”

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“And with my advice, faith I wish you'd take me.”

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“For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.”

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“Sure the shovel and tongs
To each other belongs.”

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“A baby was sleeping,
Its mother was weeping,
For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.”

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“Sure my love is all crost
Like a bud in the frost
And there's no use at all in my going to bed,
For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head!”

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“As she sat in the low-backed car
The man at the turn-pike bar
Never asked for the toll
But just rubbed his auld poll
And looked after the low-backed car.”

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“"That 's eight times to-day that you 've kissed me before."
"Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure,
For there 's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.”

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Samuel Lover Quotes by Topic

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Samuel Lover on Infant 2 quotes

“A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.”

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Samuel Lover on Life

“Live and think.”

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Samuel Lover on Courtship

“Come live in my heart and pay no rent.”

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Samuel Lover on Smiling

“Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.”

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Samuel Lover on Dreams

“For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.”

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Samuel Lover on Marriage

“Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.”

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Samuel Lover on Ballads

“For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.”

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Samuel Lover on Snow

“Where's the snow That fell the year that's fled—where's the snow?”

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Samuel Lover on Luck

“"Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure, For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.”

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Samuel Lover on Shamrock

“I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all the fairy dells, And if I find the charmèd leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!”

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Samuel Lover on Chickens

“The lovers come near and far,    And envy the chicken    That Peggy is pickin’, As she sits in the low-backed car.”

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What Samuel Lover Said About Others

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Samuel Lover on Mothers

“There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.”

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