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Said in the 1100s

• “Yon rising Moon that looks for us again — How oft hereafter will she wax and wane; How oft hereafter rising look for us Through this same Garden — and for one in vain!”

  Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) said by 1131 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: C (1889)

• “In a brahmin house where they feed the fire as a god when the fire goes wild and burns the house they splash on it the water of the gutter and the dust of the street, beat their breasts and call the crowd. These men then forget their worship and scold their fire, O lord of the meeting rivers!”

  Basava (1134–1196) said by 1196 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Qui me amat, amat et canem meam.”

  Bernard of Clairvaux (1091–1153) said by 1153 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In Festo Sancti Michaelis, Sermo 1, sect. 3; translation from Richard Chevenix Trench, Archbishop of Dublin On the Lessons in Proverbs ([1853] 1856) p. 148

  Also quoted by: Bernardus Claraevallensis (la)

• “God shall never see me a good man. I have suffered too much from him.”

  William II of England (died 1100) said by 1100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in The Atlantic Monthly (September 1882), p. 407

• “That one back home whom I promised to think about when I saw the moon: on this night perhaps she too will be soaking her sleeves with tears.”

  Saigyo (1118–1190) said by 1190 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology (1991), Steven D. Carter

• “Entities other than Brahman can be objects of such cognitions of the nature of joy only to a finite extent and for limited duration. But Brahman is such that cognizing of him is an infinite and abiding joy. It is for this reason that the shruti [scripture] says, `Brahman is bliss’ ( II.6.) Since the form of cognition as joy is determined by its object, Brahman itself is joy.”

  Ramanuja (1017–1137) first seen 1017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Ramanuja. Vedarthasangraha §241, as quoted by Shyam Ranganathan "Rāmānuja (c. 1017 – c. 1137 CE)," at Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Accessed May 20. 2014.

• “This Arthur is the hero of many wild tales among the Britons even in our own day, but assuredly deserves to be the object of reliable history rather than of false and dreaming fable.”

  William of Malmesbury (1095–1143) said by 1143 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quoted in M. J. Cohen and John Major (eds.), History in Quotations (Cassell, 2004), p. 160

• “Set et inclitus ille rex Arturus letaliter vulneratus est qui illuc ad sananda vulnera sua in insulam Avallonis evectus, Constantino cognato suo, et filio Cadoris ducis Cornubie diadema Britannie concessit.”

  Geoffrey of Monmouth (1100–1155) said by 1155 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “They were not aware of the way of modesty, to distinguish between good and bad. Even though there had been put in man knowledge to be able to call the animals names, there had not been put in him the drive towards evil.”

  Rashi (1040–1105) said by 1105 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Keueisy vun dunn diwyrnawd; keueisy dwy, handid mwy eu molawd; keueisy deir a pheddir a phawd; keueisy bymp o rei gwymp eu gwyngnawd; keueisy chwech heb odech pechawd; gwen glaer uch gwengaer yt ym daerhawd; keueisy sseith ac ef gweith gordygnawd; keueisy wyth yn hal pwyth peth or wawd yr geint; ys da deint rac tauaed.”

  Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd (1150–1170) said by 1170 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Gorhoffedd" (The Boast), line 75; translation from Robert Gurney Bardic Heritage (London: Chatto & Windus, 1969) p. 41.

• “I thought of thee, amid the thrusting of their spears, While the straight browned blades quenched their thirst in our blood— ... again and again we were on the verge of destruction; nor would God have delivered us save for some [future] duty.”

  Saladin (1138–1193) first seen 1177 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Turan-Shah, after the Battle of Montgisard (25 November 1177). Ibn al-Athir. Lane-Poole (1906) p. 156

• “Can vei la lauzeta mover De joi sas alas contra·l rai, Que s'oblid'e·s laissa chazer Per la doussor c'al cor li vai, Ai, tan grans enveya m'en ve De cui qu'eu veya jauzïon.”

  Bernart de Ventadorn (1140–1190) said by 1190 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Can vei la lauzeta mover", line 1; translation from James Branch Cabell The Cream of the Jest ([1917] 1972) p. 33.

• “Cum in omni fere litterarum studio dulce laboris lenimen et summum doloris solamen dum uiuitur insitum considerem, tum delectabilius et maioris praerogatiua claritatis historiarum splendorem amplectendum crediderim.”

  Henry of Huntingdon (1080–1160) said by 1160 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Prologue (tr. Diana Greenway 1996, pp. 2-3

• “People take pride on the basis of wealth and are looked down on the basis of poverty.”

  Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (1117–1197) said by 1197 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Certum est enim, longos esse crines omnibus sed breves sensus mulieribus.”

  Cosmas of Prague (1045–1125) said by 1125 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: , bk. 1, ch. 4 (tr. Lisa Wolverton, 2009)

• “گردوں بہ رنج و درد مارا کشتہ بود اگر پیوند و عمر من نہ شدے نظم جان فضائے”

  Masud Sa'd Salman (1046–1121) said by 1121 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There has been no satisfaction, and I will not absolve them.”

  Thomas Becket (1119–1171) said by 1171 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Que force sormonte vertu. Bone est force et engins mius valt, Là vaut engins où force falt; Engins et ars font mainte cose Que force commenchier ne n'ose.”

  Wace (1100–1175) said by 1175 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “What miserable drones and traitors have I nurtured and promoted in my household who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric!”

  Henry II of England (1133–1189) first seen 1180 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: , who was present at Thomas Becket's murder and subsequently wrote the Vita S. Thomae ("Life of St. Thomas") in about 1180. Quoted by Frank Barlow, Thomas Becket (University of California Press, 1986) p. 235. See also:

• “Having meditated on gentleness and on compassion, I have forgotten the difference between myself and others.”

  Milarepa (1040–1135) said by 1135 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: From the song offered to Geshe Tsaphoua, as quoted in Meditation Techniques of the Buddhist and Taoist Masters (2003) by Daniel Odier, p. 104

• “I restore to you the law of King Edward together with such emendations to it as my father made with the counsel of his barons.”

  Henry I of England (1068–1135) first seen 1042 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Coronation Charter (5 August 1100), quoted in English Historical Documents, Vol. II. 1042–1189, eds. David C. Douglas and George W. Greenaway (1953), p. 402

• “For being transferred from the City to the Greeks, from the Greeks to the Franks, from the Franks to the Lombards, from the Lombards again to the German Franks, that empire not only became decrepit and senile through lapse of time, but also, like a once smooth pebble that has been rolled this way and that by the waters, contracted many a stain and developed many a defect.”

  Otto of Freising (1111–1158) said by 1158 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ay, 'tis thus. Evil us hath in bond; By Thy grace guilt efface and respond "Forgiven!”

  Yom Tov of Joigny (died 1190) said by 1190 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source