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Said in the 1500s
“Some sensual unthinking persons affirm, that a long life is no great blessing, and that the state of a man, who has passed his seventy-fifth year, cannot really be called life; but this is wrong, as I shall fully prove; and it is my sincere wish, that all men would endeavour to attain my age [of eighty-three], that they might enjoy that period of life, which, of all others is most desirable.”
Luigi Cornaro (1484–1566) said by 1566 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For a desperate disease a desperate cure.”
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) said by 1592 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Michael De Montaigne
“Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.”
François Rabelais (1494–1553) said by 1553 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Francis Rabelais
“... to live after the law of God, and to lead a virtuous conversation, is the greatest praise that thou canst give unto his doctrine.”
Myles Coverdale (1488–1569) said by 1569 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The good seed that nature plants in us is so slight and so slippery that it cannot withstand the least harm from wrong nourishment.”
Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563) said by 1563 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
“For your sake, I gave up all pleasures, Now why are you making me long for you? You create the pang of separation inside the bosom So that you can come and quench it? O! Lord! Now I will not leave you Smilingly, call me soon! Meera is your servant in birth after birth Unite me with you in every limb.”
Meera Bai (1498–1552) said by 1552 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was fitting that such a holy Son should have a holy Mother.”
Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) said by 1531 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ulrich Zwingli E. Stakemeier, De Mariologia et Oecumenismo, K. Balic, ed., (Rome, 1962), p. 456.
“At Christmas be merry and thankful withal, And feast thy poor neighbors, the great with the small.”
Thomas Tusser (1524–1580) said by 1580 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Saw pardelas and a green rush near the vessel. The crew of the Pinta saw a cane and a log; they also picked up a stick which appeared to have been carved with an iron tool, a piece of cane, a plant which grows on land, and a board. The crew of the Nina saw other signs of land, and a stalk loaded with rose berries. These signs encouraged them, and they all grew cheerful.”
Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) first seen 1492 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 11 October 1492
“Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Or woods or steepy mountain yields.And we will sit upon the rocks, And see the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies.”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) said by 1593 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thus is that Blissful Sight end of all manner of pain to the loving soul, and the fulfilling of all manner of joy and bliss. And that shewed He in the high, marvellous words where He said: I IT AM that is highest; I IT AM that is lowest; I IT AM that is ALL.”
Julian of Norwich (1342–1500) said by 1500 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though I certainly deserve no ill treatment from mortals, yet if the insults and repulses I receive were attended with any advantage to them, I would content myself with lamenting in silence my own unmerited indignities and man's injustice.”
Erasmus (1466–1536) said by 1536 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)
“In my soul, therefore, I can see no one but God, since I suffer no one else to enter there, and myself less than any other, because I am my own worst enemy.”
Catherine of Genoa (1447–1510) said by 1510 at the latest wikiquote, 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.
“I have not lost my faith; and this I must attribute more to a miracle than to my own wisdom; more to Divine Providence than to my own virtue. Steadfastly, in fact from my earliest childhood, I have made this my prayer, "Lord God... grant me long life, and wisdom, and health of mind and body.”
Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576) said by 1576 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“’”Farewell count without a head”’”
William the Silent (1533–1584) said by 1584 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All luve is lost bot upone God allone.”
William Dunbar (1460–1520) said by 1520 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Rizqullah says that under Sikandar Lodi] one half of the country was assigned... to the Farmulis and the other half to other Afghan tribes.”
Sikandar Khan Lodi (1458–1517) said by 1517 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Waqiat-i-Mushtaqi, trs. in E and D., IV, p.547. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1990). Indian muslims: Who are they.
“As you talk, so is your heart.”
Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ryveris ran reid on spait with watir broune, And burnys hurlys all thar bankis doune.”
Gavin Douglas (1474–1522) said by 1522 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Contynually I shall remember The mery moneth of September, With the ix day of the same, For then began our myrth and game. So that now I have devysed, And in my mynde I have comprised, Of the prowde Scot, kynge Jemmy, To write some lytell tragedy, For no maner consyderacyon Of any sorowfull lamentacyon, But for the specyall consolacyon Of all our royall Englysh nacyon.”
John Skelton (1460–1529) said by 1529 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines 65–76, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 102
“Though jealousy be produced by love as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love, as ashes smother the flame.”
Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) said by 1549 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source