Famous quotes
Quotes by famous people, credited to who said them. Your own quotes must not match any of these. More are added all the time. 1,158,269 quotes Who coined it · How we decide
EnglishItalianoPolskiעבריתFrançaisPortuguêsفارسیEspañol中文РусскийDeutschالعربيةहिन्दी日本語ΕλληνικάLatina
Said in the 1000s
“Tout en Crimée évoque notre histoire et notre fierté communes. C’est l’emplacement de l’ancienne Chersonèse Taurique, où le Grand-prince Vladimir I a été baptisé. Son exploit spirituel, à savoir l’adoption du christianisme orthodoxe, a prédéterminé la base globale de la culture, de la civilisation et des valeurs humaines qui unissent les peuples de la Russie, de l’Ukraine et de la Biélorussie.”
Vladimir Ier (956–1015) said by 1015 at the latest wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have heard and know the nobleness of Indians - they fear not death or destruction… In affairs of honour and renown we would place ourselves upon the fire like roast meat, and upon the dagger like the sunrays.”
Jayapala (964–1001) said by 1001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Message to Subuktigin, in Utbi, Kitab Yamini. quoted in Misra, R. G. (2005). Indian resistance to early Muslim invaders up to 1206 A.D. p.41
“My punishment is far heavier, I forgive you, and set you free.”
Alp Arslan (1029–1072) said by 1072 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed in: R. Scott Peoples (2007) Crusade of Kings. p. 13
“Merie sungen the muneches binnen Ely Tha Cnut Ching rew there by: Roweth, cnihtes, noer the lant, And here we thes muneches saeng.”
Cnut (994–1035) said by 1035 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cnut is said to have composed this song on hearing the music of Ely Abbey, as he was sailing by in a boat. This one verse of that song has been preserved by a monk of Ely in the Historia Eliensis (c. 1166). Reported in …
“I do repent of wine and talk of wine, Of idols fair with charms like silver fine: A lip-repentance and a lustful heart— O God, forgive this penitence of mine!”
Asjadi (901–1040) said by 1040 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Les roses trémières desséchées. Les objets qui servirent à la fête des poupées. Un petit morceau d'étoffe violette ou couleur de vigne, qui vous rappelle la confection d'un costume, et que l'on découvre dans un livre où il était resté, pressé. Un jour de pluie, où l'on s'ennuie, on retrouve les lettres d'un homme jadis aimé. Un éventail chauve-souris de l'an passé.”
Sei Shônagon (966–1025) first seen 1005 wikiquote:fr, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Notes de chevet Sei Shōnagon Gallimard / Unesco 2007 ~995-1005 60 9782070705337 André Beaujard }} {{citation {{Centrer|Fleurs des arbres
“An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.”
Avicenna (980–1037) said by 1037 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Familiar Medical Quotations (1968) by Maurice B. Strauss
“Get up and bring fur clothes as Autumn is here A cold wind is blowing from the Khawrazm yonder Look at that vine leaf hanging on the vine bough It looks like the shirt of dyers The farmer is biting his finger with wonder As in the lawn or garden is left no more rose or lavender”
Manuchehri (1000–1040) said by 1040 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hope is the vision of God in His perfect Beauty.”
Al-Qushayri (986–1072) said by 1072 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Æmulabatur Ægyptum regularium cœnobiorum collegiis.”
William of Poitiers (1020–1090) said by 1090 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Scriptores Rerum Francicarum, vol. 11, p. 89. Paraphrased by Jules Michelet, History of France, tr. G. H. Smith, vol. 1 (New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1882), p. 197
“Take one step out of yourself that you may arrive at God.”
Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049) said by 1049 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“春风又绿江南岸，明月何时照我还？”
Wang Anshi (1021–1086) said by 1086 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A scene like Paradise! 'Tis not Farkhar Yet all the splendour of Farkhar is there. Kisses of loyal kings imprint the earth, Faces of fair youths fill with light the air. Then look how gold and silver pleiades Bestud the rolling sky of scimitars, And how, like dagger's peral-encrusted haft, Each baldrick shows its blazonry of stars!”
Unsuri (970–1039) said by 1039 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ἡ γὰρ συνήθεια εὔκαταφρονήτους ποιεῖν εἴωθεν.”
Kekaumenos (1020–1070) said by 1070 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Strategikon, ch. 12. Reported in Georgina G. Buckler, "Proverb: Familiarity Breeds Contempt", Notes and Queries (18 July 1936) p. 46
“Good deeds stand tall like a green pine, evil deeds bloom like flowers; The pine is not as brilliant as the flowers, it seems. When the frost comes, the pine will still stand tall, While the flowers, withered, can be seen no more”
Nasir Khusraw (1004–1088) said by 1088 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I counsel you, O Kings of Earth, to cease not Seeking good name for well-doing and right Spending your 'white' and 'red' to purchase honour, Which shall not wane with change of 'black' and 'white': These are the lasting spoils of Mahmud's prowess, Which spoils we share when we his praise indite.”
Abu al-Fath al-Busti (942–1010) said by 1010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The church shall be catholic, chaste and free: catholic in faith and the communion of saints, chaste from all contagion of evil, and free from all secular power.”
Pope Urban II (1035–1099) first seen 1050 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Decree, also quoted in Colin Morris, The Papal Monarchy: The Western Church from 1050 to 1250 (1991), p. 125
“Stillness is an undisturbed state of the intellect,”
Niketas Stethatos (1000–1090) said by 1090 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source