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Said in the 1100s

• “Who ever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Allobroges, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians, Normans, English, Scots, Aquitanians, Italians, Dacians, Apulians, Iberians, Bretons, Greeks, and Armenians? If any Breton or Teuton wished to question me, I could neither understand nor answer.”

  Fulcher of Chartres (1059–1127) said by 1127 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Gesta Francorum Iherusalem peregrinantium, ch. 13, sec. 4 (tr. Martha Evelyn McGinty, 1941)

• “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

• “What a sight! The air was full of the harsh sound of arrows thudding from bows, horses reared up in terror and the mountains reverberated with the din of battle.”

  Matthew of Edessa (1100–1144) said by 1144 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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

• “The bird that sings the song of pain is love The courier who knows the tongue of the Unseen is love The existence that call you to nonexistence is love And that which redeems you from you is love”

  Khaqani (1121–1199) said by 1199 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “O venerable father Bernard, I lay my claim before you, for, highly honored by God, you bring fear to the immoral foolishness of this world and, in your intense zeal and burning love for the Son of God, gather men [cf. Luke 5.10] into Christ's army to fight under the banner of the cross against pagan savagery. I beseech you in the name of the Living God to give heed to my queries.”

  Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) first seen 1146 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, 1146-47

• “Meum est propositum in taberna mori, ut sint vina proxima morientis ori.”

  Archpoet (1130–1165) said by 1165 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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

• “Ergo domine...credimus te esse aliquid quo nihil maius cogitari possit.”

  Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109) said by 1109 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Proslogion, ch. 2; Gregory Schufreider Confessions of a Rational Mystic: Anselm's Early Writings (West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1994) pp. 324-5.

• “Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos gigantum humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvehimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea”

  John of Salisbury (1110–1180) first seen 1159 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Metalogicon (1159) bk. 3, ch. 4. Translation from Henry Osborn Taylor The Mediaeval Mind ([1911] 1919) vol. 2, p. 159; such similes were available to Isaac Newton, when he humbly made use of them in comparing his progre…

  Also quoted by: Bernard of Chartres

• “The Asharites have expressed a very peculiar opinion, both with regard to reason and religion; about this problem they have explained it in a way in which religion has not, but have adopted quite an opposite method.”

  Averroes (1126–1198) said by 1198 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The number of combinations for matra meters are stated [as follows]. The sum (योगः) of the last and last-but-one (अन््त्ययौपान््ततौ) terms is the number of meters possible for a given number of matras.”

  Hemachandra (1088–1172) said by 1172 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “چون تیشه مباش و جمله زی خود متراش چون رنده ز کار خویش بی بهره مباش تعلــیم ز اره گیر در امــر معاش چیزی سوی خود میکش و چیزی می پاش”

  Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami (1048–1141) said by 1141 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “This celebrated island, formerly called Albion, afterwards Britain, and now England.”

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

  Recorded in: Book I, translated by Thomas Forester, The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853) p. 2

• “Love seems to be the satisfaction of a person's heart towards something, because of something: it presents itself as desire in the search, and happiness in the satisfaction of possession; it appears as a race, as far as desire is concerned, and as rest, as far as the joy of possession is concerned.”

  Hugh of Saint Victor (1096–1141) said by 1141 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “[He said] that he was very unfortunate to have maintained so many cowardly and ungrateful men in his court, none of whom would revenge him of the injuries he sustained from one turbulent priest.”

  Henry II of England (1133–1189) said by 1189 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: George Lyttleton, History of the Life of King Henry the Second (1772)

• “Stick to your own grammar, my lord, for it is much better.”

  Richard I of England (1157–1199) said by 1199 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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

• “He who is not alone cannot be silent. And he who is not silent cannot hear you when you speak to him.”

  Guigo II (1114–1193) said by 1193 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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.