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50
Words
for Snow ( Kate Bush song )
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes ( Beatles song lyric )
A little learning is a dangerous thing ( from a
poem
by Alexander Pope )
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A mighty maze of mystic magic rays ( lyric of song used at the opening of television )
A narrow fellow in the grass ( from a
poem
by Emily Dickinson )
A picture paints a thousand
words
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever ( from a
poem
by Keats )
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Actions speak louder than
words
All the lonely people, where do they all come from? ( Beatles song lyric )
Alphabet soup ( a jumble of
words
or letters, often in reference to organsiations known by their initials, like CIA or BBC )
And miles to go before I sleep ( from a
poem
by Robert Frost )
At a loss for
words
Baby you can drive my car ( Beatles song lyric )
Ballad
Of A Thin Man ( Bob Dylan song )
Ballad
of the Green Berets ( Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler song )
Bandy
words
with
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Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head ( The Beatles song lyric )
Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all ( from a
poem
by Keats )
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me ( from a
poem
by Dickinson )
Beelzebub has the devil for a sideboard ( misheard lyric from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody )
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Busy old fool, unruly sun ( from a
poem
by John Donne )
But at my back I always hear ( from a
poem
by Marvell )
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker ( from a
poem
by Nash )
Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
Chapter and
verse
Charge of the Light Brigade ( British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a
poem
by Tennyson )
Clang clang clang went the trolley ( Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland song lyric )
Come Into The Garden Maud ( Tennyson
poem
and Victorian song )
Come together right now over me ( Beatles song lyric )
Deeds not
words
Digging the dancing queen ( ABBA lyric )
Do not go gentle into that good night ( from a
poem
by Dylan Thomas )
Doctor, doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of loving you ( Robert Palmer song lyric )
Don't criticise what you don't understand
Don't mince
words
Don't worry, be happy
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes ( Ben Jonson
poem
and Victorian song )
Eat your
words
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been ( Beatles song lyric )
Empty
words
Famous last
words
Fine
words
butter no parsnips
Fish and finger pie ( Beatles song lyric )
For the benefit of Mr.Kite there will be a show tonight on trampoline ( Beatles song lyric )
Friday night and the lights are low ( ABBA lyric )
From sea to shining sea
Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight ( ABBA lyric )
Hard
words
Have
words
with
He's a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land ( The Beatles song lyric )
Helpless Helpless Helpless Helpless ( Neil Young song lyric )
Hey Jude, Don't Make It Bad ( The Beatles song lyric )
Hope springs eternal in the human breast ( from a
poem
by Alexander Pope )
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ( from a
poem
by Browning )
How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? ( Beatles song lyric )
Human kind cannot bear very much reality ( from a
poem
by Eliot )
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together ( Beatles song lyric )
I am the master of my fate ( from a
poem
by Henley )
I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob ( Beatles song lyric )
I believe in angels, something good in everything I see ( ABBA lyric )
I don't wanna talk ( ABBA lyric )
I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled ( from a
poem
by Eliot )
I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? ( Beatles song lyric )
I look at the world and I notice it's turning ( The Beatles song lyric )
I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me ( The Beatles song lyric )
I think that I shall never see a
poem
lovely as a tree, Kilmer )
I wandered lonely as a cloud ( from a
poem
by Wordsworth )
I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright ( The Beatles song lyric )
I'll send all my loving to you ( Beatles song lyric )
I'm not half the man I used to be ( The Beatles song lyric )
I've been brokenhearted, blue since the day we parted ( ABBA lyric )
I've been cheated by you since I don't know when ( ABBA lyric )
Ice, ice baby
If I had to do the same again, I would my friend Fernando ( ABBA lyric )
If you can keep your head when all about you ( from a
poem
by Kipling )
If you change your mind, I'm the first in line ( ABBA lyric )
If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying ( Bob Dylan song lyric )
Imagine no religion, it's easy if you try
In Flanders fields the poppies blow ( from a
poem
by McCrae )
In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs ( Beatles song lyric )
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan ( from a
poem
by Coleridge )
In as many
words
In other
words
In three
words
I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on ( Robert Frost quotation )
In
words
of one syllable
It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play ( Beatles song lyric )
It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog ( Beatles song lyric )
Kind
words
Knowing me, knowing you, it's the best I can do ( ABBA lyric )
Lady Madonna, children at your feet ( Beatles song lyric )
Let me take you down, cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields ( Beatles song lyric )
Living is easy with eyes closed ( Beatles song lyric )
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair ( from a
poem
by Shelley )
Lost for
words
Love
ballad
Love is all you need ( The Beatles song lyric )
Love, love me do, you know I love you ( Beatles song lyric )
Mamma mia, here I go again ( ABBA lyric )
Man of few
words
Mark my
words
Mince your
words
Money can't buy you love ( Beatles song lyric )
Money doesn't talk, it swears
Money, money, money ( ABBA lyric )
Mother Superior jumped the gun ( Beatles song lyric )
My heart went boom when I crossed that room ( Beatles song lyric )
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ( from a
poem
by Shakespeare )
My my, I could never let you go ( ABBA lyric )
Never scratches ( Lyric Records advertising slogan )
Not in so many
words
Not with a bang but a whimper ( from a
poem
by Eliot )
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about ( The Beatles song lyric )
One two three o'clock four o'clock rock
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes ( Beatles song lyric )
Put
words
into someone's mouth
Say a few
words
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ( from a
poem
by Keats )
See how they run like pigs from a gun ( The Beatles song lyric )
See that girl, watch that scene ( ABBA lyric )
Semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower ( Beatles song lyric )
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? ( from a
poem
by Shakespeare )
She's got a ticket to ride but she don't care ( Beatles song lyric )
Sticks and stones may break my bones but
words
will never hurt me
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone ( from a
poem
by Auden )
Summertime, and the living is easy
Take a chance on me ( ABBA lyric )
Take the
words
out of my mouth
Tangerine trees and marmalade skies ( Beatles song lyric )
Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground ( Beatles song lyric )
Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing ( ABBA lyric )
The
Ballad
Of John And Yoko ( Beatles song )
The Road Not Taken ( Robert Frost
poem
)
The act you've known for all these years ( Beatles song lyric )
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind ( Bob Dylan song lyric )
The child is father of the man ( from a
poem
by Wordsworth )
The long and winding road that leads to your door ( Beatles song lyric )
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still ( The Beatles song lyric )
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n ( from a
poem
by Milton )
The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on ( from a
poem
by Fitzgerald )
The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est ( from a
poem
by Owen )
The proper study of mankind is man ( from a
poem
by Alexander Pope )
The times they are a changing
The winner takes it all, the loser standing small ( ABBA lyric )
There will be an answer, let it be ( The Beatles song lyric )
There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer ( ABBA lyric )
There's nothing you can do that can't be done ( The Beatles song lyric )
They also serve who only stand and wait ( from a
poem
by Milton )
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold ( from a
poem
by Yeats )
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all ( from a
poem
by Tennyson )
To err is human; to forgive, divine ( from a
poem
by Alexander Pope )
To have
words
with
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield ( from a
poem
by Tennyson )
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams ( from a
poem
by Yeats )
Unchained
Melody
( Righteous Brothers song )
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door ( Beatles song lyric )
War of
words
Warm
words
Waterloo, couldn't escape if I wanted to ( ABBA lyric )
Way with
words
We all live in a yellow submarine ( Beatles song lyric )
Weasel
words
Well, she was just seventeen you know what I mean ( The Beatles song lyric )
Well-chosen
words
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare ( from a
poem
by Davies )
What would you think if I sang out of tune ( The Beatles song lyric )
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple ( from a
poem
by Joseph )
When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me ( Beatles song lyric )
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes ( from a
sonnet
by Shakespeare )
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies ( Beatles song lyric )
Whisper
words
of wisdom, let it be ( The Beatles song lyric )
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty? ( ABBA lyric )
With love from me to you ( Beatles song lyric )
Words
Of Love ( Buddy Holly song )
Words
of wisdom
Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye ( Beatles song lyric )
You Took The
Words
Right Out Of My Mouth, It Must Have Been Whilst You Were Kissing Me ( Meatloaf song )
You couldn't catch a monkey with a shotgun and a sack
You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows
You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo ( Beatles song lyric )
Young and sweet, only seventeen ( ABBA lyric )