The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear Quotes

“Ploffskin, Pluffskin, Pelican jee! We think no Birds so happy as we! Plumpskin, Ploshkin, Pelican jill! We think so then, and we thought so still!”
― Edward Lear, The Nonsense Books Collection

“There was an Old Man, on whose nose, Most birds of the air could repose; But they all flew away At the closing of day, Which relieved that Old Man and his nose.”
― Edward Lear, A Book of Nonsense: English-Russian Bilingual Edition