| "___ lifeboats!" | 26 |
| "___ Life," Harold Rome song | 38 |
| "___ Life" (Peter Mayle book) | 39 |
| "___ Life" (Beatles song) | 35 |
| "___ life" | 20 |
| "___ life!" | 21 |
| "___ Life to Live" | 28 |
| "___ Life Strange" (Moody Blues hit) | 46 |
| "___ Life of Johnson" (classic biography) | 51 |
| "___ Life of Johnson" | 31 |
| "___ Life Is It Anyway?": Dreyfuss movie | 50 |
| "___ Life Is It Anyway?" | 34 |
| "___ Lieutenants," D. S. Freeman book | 47 |
| "___ lies awaitin' . . . " | 40 |
| "___ lied" | 20 |
| "___ lied!" | 21 |
| "___ liebt dich" ("She Loves You" rerecorded in German) | 75 |
| "___ liebe dich" | 26 |
| "___ lie!" | 20 |
| "___ Libre" (2006 Jack Black film) | 44 |
| "___ Libre" | 21 |
| "___ Libre d'Orange" (perfume line) | 49 |
| "___ liberty and justice . . . " | 42 |
| "___ Liberal": Matthew Arnold | 39 |
| "___ Liberal": M. Arnold | 34 |
| "___ Liaisons Dangereuses" | 36 |
| "___ Letters" | 23 |
| "___ letter" (office order) | 37 |
| "___ Let's Start" (They Might Be Giants tune) | 59 |
| "___ let you finish!" (Kanye West) | 44 |
| "___ let us in, knows where we've been" (Beatles lyric) | 69 |
| "___ let us in, knows where we've been" ("Octopus's Garden" lyric) | 94 |
| "___ let us adore Him" | 32 |
| "___ Let Them Clash," Burns poem | 42 |
| "___ let them clash!": Burns | 38 |
| "___ Let the Dogs Out" | 32 |
| "___ Lessways": Bennett | 33 |
| "___ lessons ..." | 27 |
| "___ Less Ordinary" (1997) | 36 |
| "___ Less Ordinary" (1997 film) | 41 |
| "___ Lescaut" | 23 |
| "___ Leroy" (Frances Harper) | 38 |
| "___ Leroy" (Frances Harper novel) | 44 |
| "___ Leilani," Crosby hit | 35 |
| "___ Legend" (2007 Will Smith movie) | 46 |
| "___ Legend" (2007 Will Smith film) | 45 |
| "___ Legend" | 22 |
| "___ left his home in Tucson, Arizona" (Beatles lyric) | 64 |
| "___ Lee," 1861 song | 30 |
| "___ Lee" (classic song) | 34 |
| "___ Lee" (Civil War song from which "Love Me Tender" was adapted) | 86 |
| "___ Lee" | 19 |
| "___ Leben," Wagner's autobiography | 49 |
| "___ Leaves," 1956 film | 33 |
| "___ Leave You?": 1971 song | 37 |
| "___ learned ... " | 28 |
| "___ learn him or kill him": Twain | 44 |
| "___ Lear" | 20 |
| "___ league onward" | 29 |
| "___ Leaf," May-Matthau film | 38 |
| "___ Leaf Rag" (Scott Joplin) | 39 |
| "___ Leaf Rag" (Joplin tune) | 38 |
| "___ leads to London": Masefield | 42 |
| "___ leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering": Yoda | 82 |
| "___ le tyran!" | 25 |
| "___ le roi!" (French Revolution cry) | 47 |
| "___ le roi!" (Bastille cry) | 38 |
| "___ le roi!" | 23 |
| "___ le Monde" (final Pixies studio album) | 52 |
| "___ le Moko," Gabin film | 35 |
| "___ Le Moko" (1937 movie) | 36 |
| "___ Le Moko" (1937 Duvivier drama) | 45 |
| "___ le Moko" | 23 |
| "___ le feste" ("Rigoletto" aria) | 53 |
| "___ là ?" (Who goes there?) | 40 |
| "___ Lazy River" (old song) | 37 |
| "___ Lazy River" | 26 |
| "___ lazy river ..." (Bobby Darin lyric) | 50 |
| "___ lazy river . . . " | 33 |
| "___ Lazuli," Yeats poem | 34 |
| "___ lay me..." | 25 |
| "___ lay me down..." | 30 |
| "___ Lay Me Down" (1995 hit) | 38 |
| "___ lay me down ..." | 31 |
| "___ lay me down . . . " | 34 |
| "___ lay me ..." | 26 |
| "___ lay me . . . " | 29 |
| "___ Lay Dying," Faulkner novel | 41 |
| "___ Lay Dying": Faulkner | 35 |
| "___ Lay Dying" (Faulkner novel) | 42 |
| "___ Lay Dying" | 25 |
| "___ lawyers never die, they just lose their appeal" | 62 |
| "___ Lawyer," Olsen-Johnson film | 42 |
| "___ law," in electricity | 35 |
| "___ Laurie" | 22 |
| "___ laughs at probabilities": Bulwer-Lytton | 54 |
| "___ Laughing," Irvin S. Cobb's autobiography | 59 |
| "___ Laughing," Cobb book | 35 |
| "___ Laughing," 1967 film | 35 |
| "___ laughing now?" | 29 |