Tongue Twister Quotes - Page 18

Black bug''s blood.

You''ve no need to light a night-light
On a light night like tonight,
For a night-light''s light''s a slight light,
And tonight''s a night that''s light.
When a night''s light, like tonight''s light,
It is really not quite right
To light night-lights with their slight lights
On a light night like tonight.

Peggy Babcock.

Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.

Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone.

Three gray geese in the green grass grazing.
Gray were the geese and green was the grass.

Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.

Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed
shilly-shallied south.
These sheep shouldn''t sleep in a shack;
sheep should sleep in a shed.

The two-twenty-two train tore through the tunnel.

Old oily Ollie oils old oily autos.

Which witch wished which wicked wish?

A tree toad loved a she-toad
Who lived up in a tree.
He was a two-toed tree toad
But a three-toed toad was she.
The two-toed tree toad tried to win
The three-toed she-toad''s heart,
For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground
That the three-toed tree toad trod.
But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain.
He couldn''t please her whim.
From her tree toad bower
With her three-toed power
The she-toad vetoed him.

Six short slow shepherds.

My dame hath a lame tame crane,
My dame hath a crane that is lame.

Sly Sam slurps Sally''s soup.

Ruby Rugby''s brother bought and brought her
back some rubber baby-buggy bumpers.

Moose noshing much mush.

We surely shall see the sun shine soon.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

The boot black bought the black boot back.

Greek grapes.

Flee from fog to fight flu fast!

I need not your needles, they''re needless to me;
For kneading of noodles, ''twere needless, you see;
But did my neat knickers but need to be kneed,
I then should have need of your needles indeed.

Fat frogs flying past fast.

Tim, the thin twin tinsmith

Gertie''s great-grandma grew aghast at Gertie''s grammar.

Lovely lemon liniment.

I cannot bear to see a bear
Bear down upon a hare.
When bare of hair he strips the hare,
Right there I cry, "Forbear!"

Cheap ship trip.

Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently.

Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks.

Mr. See owned a saw.
And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See''s saw sawed Soar''s seesaw
Before Soar saw See,
Which made Soar sore.
Had Soar seen See''s saw
Before See sawed Soar''s seesaw,
See''s saw would not have sawed
Soar''s seesaw.
So See''s saw sawed Soar''s seesaw.
But it was sad to see Soar so sore
Just because See''s saw sawed
Soar''s seesaw!

The myth of Miss Muffet.

A noisy noise annoys an oyster.

Inchworms itching.

A bitter biting bittern
Bit a better brother bittern,
And the bitter better bittern
Bit the bitter biter back.
And the bitter bittern, bitten,
By the better bitten bittern,
Said: "I''m a bitter biter bit, alack!"

Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.

Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?

Knapsack straps.

A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.
Said the flea, "Let us fly!"
Said the fly, "Let us flee!"
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

Sam''s shop stocks short spotted socks.

I am not the pheasant plucker,
I''m the pheasant plucker''s mate.
I am only plucking pheasants
''cause the pheasant plucker''s running late.

Three free throws.

Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.

A Tudor who tooted a flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to their tutor,
"Is it harder to toot
or to tutor two tooters to toot?"

"Surely Sylvia swims!" shrieked Sammy, surprised.
"Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink."

Mrs. Smith''s Fish Sauce Shop.

She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I''m sure she sells seashore shells.

I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.

Pope Sixtus VI''s six texts.