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Said in the 1500s

• “I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.”

  John Heywood (1497–1580) said by 1580 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Geoffrey Chaucer

• “Yet true it is, as cow chews cud And trees at spring do yield forth bud, Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind turns none to good.”

  Thomas Tusser (1524–1580) said by 1580 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: A Description of the Properties of Wind, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• “«La ley no debe tornar al pasado, sino prever el futuro».”

  Nicolás Maquiavelo (1469–1527) said by 1527 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He thus put an end to all the idolatrous rites of the infidels there; and no Hindu, if he wished to have his head or beard shaved, could get a barber to do it. Every city thus conformed as he desired to the customs of Islam.”

  Sikandar Khan Lodi (1458–1517) said by 1517 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “After some time the Sultãn started contemplating the conquest of the port of Jagat which is a place of worship for the BrahmaNas… With this resolve he started for the port of Jagat on 16 Zil-Hajjã, AH 877 (AD 14 July, 1473). He reached Jagat with great difficulty due to the narrowness of the road and the presence of forests… He destroyed the temple of Jagat…”

  Mahmud Begada (1458–1511) first seen 1458 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sultãn Mahmûd BegDhã of Gujarat (AD 1458-1511) Dwarka (Gujarat)

  Also quoted by: Nizamuddin Ahmad

• “There He taught me the science full of sweetness. And there I gave to Him Myself without reserve; There I promised to be His bride. ~ 27”

  John of the Cross (1542–1591) said by 1591 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Things past recovery Are hardly cured with exclamations.”

  Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) said by 1593 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«Los nervios de todas las batallas están en las arcas de caudales».”

  François Rabelais (1494–1553) said by 1553 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Thanks be to God," says the Admiral; "the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is.”

  Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) first seen 1492 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 8 October 1492

• “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and yet had no love I were even as the sounding brass or as a tinkling cymbal.”

  William Tyndale (1494–1536) said by 1536 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Che chi a pazienza fa ogni cosa.”

  Francesco Berni (1497–1535) said by 1535 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Even as a surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb,—before in ure he put His violent engins on the vicious member, Bringeth his patient in a senseless slumber, And grief-less then (guided by use and art), To save the whole, sawes off th' infested part.”

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) said by 1590 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Du Bartas

• “Pour faire un bon ennemi, prenez un ami: il sait où frapper.”

  Diane de Poitiers (1499–1566) said by 1566 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Than upon him scho kest up baith hir Ene, And with ane blenk it come into his thocht, That he sumtime hir face befoir had sene. Bot scho was in sic plye he knew hir nocht, Yit than hir luik into his mynd it brocht The sweit visage and amorous blenking Of fair Cresseid sumtyme his awin darling.”

  Robert Henryson (1425–1506) said by 1506 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When the sun appears which dispels darkness in general, you put out the light which dispelled it for you in particular for your need and convenience.”

  Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) said by 1519 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Trithemius to Agrippa”

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535) said by 1535 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The image of St. Theresa, the Spaniard, is not less than that of St Francis of Assisi. Let us also recall the ancient times when, in spite of the fact that masculine egoism always attempted to suppress the achievements of women, there were always some illumined minds that did not submit to this shameful weakness.”

  Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) said by 1582 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Helena Roerich, in Letters of Helena Roerich II, (9 August 1937)

• “....But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay, Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows, And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write.”

  Philip Sidney (1554–1586) said by 1586 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “With silver drops the mead yet spread for ruth, In active games of nimbleness and strength, Where we did strain, trained with swarms of youth, Our tender limbs that yet shot up in length. The secret groves, which oft we made resound Of pleasant plaint, and of our ladies' praise; Recording oft what grace each one had found, What hope of speed, what dread of long delays.”

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516–1547) said by 1547 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Sono maggiori li spaventi ch'e mali.”

  Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) said by 1527 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.”

  Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) said by 1592 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Book I, Ch. 40. Of Good and Evil (tr. Cotton, rev. W. Hazlitt, 1842)

  Also quoted by: Michael De Montaigne

• “«Nada es tan fácil ni tan útil como escuchar mucho».”

  Luis Vives (1492–1540) said by 1540 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.”

  Titian (1490–1576) said by 1576 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in A Dictionary of Art and Artists (1959) by Peter Murray and Linda Murray, p. 321.

• “«El placer más noble es el júbilo de comprender».”

  Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) said by 1519 at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source