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“One of the neighbors found Nasreddin scattering crumbs all around his house. "Why are you doing that?" he asked. "I'm keeping the tigers away," replied Nasreddin. "But there aren't any tigers around here," said the neighbor. "That's right," said Nasreddin. "You see how well it works?”
Nasreddin (1208–1284) said by 1284 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Engelbert Thaler, Teaching English Literature (2008), , p. 82
“The Jami Masjid of Badaun, also built by Iletmish is one of the largest mosques in India. Following the traditional courtyard plan, it also utilizes Hindu temple pillars. The entrance arches of the gateways leading into the courtyard of the Mosque presumably recall those in the great Mosques at Delhi and Ajmer…”
Iltutmish (1192–1236) said by 1236 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Badaun (Uttar Pradesh) Syed Mahmudul Hasan, Mosque Architecture of Pre-Mughal Bengal, Dacca (Bangladesh), 1979, p. 39
“From the Throne to the earth is the creation of God Most High; everything but his existence is his action. He brought them into existence from pure non-being.”
Ruzbihan Baqli (1128–1209) said by 1209 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.”
Arnaud Amalric (1160–1225) said by 1225 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No night passes when my sorrow-stricken heart does not bleed, No day I spend that does not completely divest me of honour, Never in my life did I drink a draught of water in peace, Which did not irrigate the dry earth through the channels of my eyes.”
Baba Farid (1175–1265) said by 1265 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even though you're not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord.”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: III, 1445-49 (tr. Helminski, 1996)
“(Che) nessuna scienza Senz’ ammaestratura Non saglie in grande altura Per proprio sentimento.”
Guido Guinizzelli (1230–1276) said by 1276 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Canzone. (Poeti del Primo Secolo, Firenze, 1816, Vol. I, p. 83).
“When the spirit is lukewarm, and gradually growing cold as it moves from grace, flesh and blood inevitably seek their own interests. When the soul finds no delight, what is left except for the flesh to look for some? Then the base instinct covers itself with the excuse of necessity, and the mind of the flesh forms the conscience.”
Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) said by 1226 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“כל התורה כולה שמותיו של הקב״ה”
Ramban (1194–1270) said by 1270 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My posterity has been snatched from me...The young king and the Count of Britanny sleep in dust. Their unhappy mother is forced to live on, ceaselessly tormented by their memory...I have lost the staff of my age, the light of my eyes.”
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124–1204) first seen 1193 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Pope Celestine III (1193), in Amy Kelly, Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings (1950), ch. 30
“He said The Sufi is the son of the moment.”
Shams Tabrizi (1185–1248) said by 1248 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man as a microcosm contains everything that exists in the macrocosm.”
Najmuddin Kubra (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Je ameroie mieus que uns Escoz venist d'Escosse et gouvernast le peuple du royaume bien et loyaument, que que tu le gouvernasses mal apertement.”
Louis IX of France (1214–1270) said by 1270 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like as my ancestors, so did my father Yusuf, son of Zaki Muwajjad, early depart hence. Yet what boots it to quarrel with destiny? Fate spoke, and complaints must be hushed. Yet whose father died not? When I saw him depart to his fathers, I tore his image out of my heart. Whatever has happened to me, bitter or sweet, all I have done is to resign myself.”
Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1214) said by 1214 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Minus enim acceptantur dona, que prestat inuisus. Sane gratiora sunt, que ab amicis porriguntur. Adeo interdum ex offerente oblati precium pendet.”
Saxo Grammaticus (1150–1220) said by 1220 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 4, para. 3 (ed. Karsten Friis-Jensen, 2015; tr. Peter Fisher, 1979)
“In the Buddha’s teaching, unless you cast away body and life, there can be no realization of benefit.”
Ippen (1239–1289) said by 1289 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Saxon nobles ... did not repair to church in the morning, according to Christian use, but loitering in their couches and their wives' embraces, they were content with hastily snatching a word of the solemn rites of matins and of mass.”
Matthew Paris (1200–1259) said by 1259 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chronica Majora (Paris, 1644), p. 4; quoted in Jules Michelet, History of France, tr. G. H. Smith, vol. 1 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1882), p. 200
“In the year 159 (AD 776) Al Mahdî sent an army by sea under ‘Abdul Malik bin Shahãbu’l Musamma’î to India… They proceeded on their way and at length disembarked at Barada. When they reached the place they laid siege to it… The town was reduced to extremities, and God prevailed over it in the same year. The people were forbidden to worship the Budd, which the Muhammadans burned.”
Ibn al-Athir (1160–1233) said by 1233 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sweet hymns shall be my chant and woven songs, For Thou art all for which my spirit longs-- To be within the shadow of Thy hand And all Thy mystery to understand. The while Thy glory is upon my tongue, My inmost heart with love of thee is wrung, So though Thy mighty marvels I proclaim, 'Tis songs of love wherewith I greet Thy name.”
Yehuda he-Hasid (1150–1217) said by 1217 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear is a whip of God for the undisciplined devotee. When the fear of God enters into the heart, it turns the flask of the heart into pieces.”
Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173–1236) said by 1236 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Good lady, I from you and Love receive Sense, knowledge, vigor, heart, good words and song; To you and Love the thanks and praise belong If anything of worth I may achieve, For you have given me this mastery.”
Aimeric de Peguilhan (1170–1228) said by 1228 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As Cain was a wanderer and an outcast, not to be killed by anyone but marked with the sign of fear on his forehead, so the Jews ... against whom the voice of the blood of Christ cries out ... although they are not to be killed they must always be dispersed as wanderers upon the face of the earth.”
Pope Innocent III (1160–1216) said by 1216 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Migne, Patrologia, CCXV, 1291. See The Talmud Unmasked by J. B. Pranaitis, p. 89
“Muhammad Kasim, ascertaining that large offerings were made to the idol, and wishing to add to his resources by those means, left it uninjured, but in order to show his horror of Indian superstition, he attached a piece of cow's flesh to its neck, by which he was able to gratify his avarice and malignity at the same time.”
Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203–1283) said by 1283 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Multan (Punjab). Zakariya bin Muhammad (al-Kazwini): Ãsaru’l-Bilad in Elliot and Dowson, Vol. I : Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, 8 Volumes, Allahabad Reprint, 1964. pp. 470.
“بنی آدم اعضای یک پیکرند که در آفرينش ز یک گوهرند چو عضوى به درد آورد روزگار دگر عضوها را نماند قرار تو کز محنت دیگران بی غمی نشاید که نامت نهند آدمیBanī 'ādam a'zā-ye yek peykar-and ke dar 'āfarīn-aš ze yek gowhar-and čo 'ozvī be dard āvarad rūzgār degar 'ozvhā-rā na-mānad qarār to k-az mehnat-ē dīgarān bīqam-ī na-šāyad ke nām-at nahand ādamī”
Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chapter 1, story 10. Tr. M. Aryanpoor, in Ranjit Bolt, The Art of Translation (London: Oberon, 2010) p. 50