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Said in the 1500s
“The wrong sow by th' eare.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) said by 1580 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Geoffrey Chaucer
“I mean not to relate that which divers men believe, that a reasonable soul becometh the habitation of a meaner sort of devils, by whom men learn the secrets of things natural; and much less do I account of the supposed governors of the world feigned by magicians, by whose means they brag to effect marvelous things.”
François de Belleforest (1530–1583) said by 1583 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And al smail fowlys syngis on the spray: Welcum the lord of lycht, and lamp of day.”
Gavin Douglas (1474–1522) said by 1522 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A son [Timon le Misanthrope] exemple ie denonce à ces calumniateurs diaboliques, que tous ayent à se pendre dedans le dernier chanteau de ceste lune. Ie les fourniray de licolz.”
François Rabelais (1494–1553) first seen 1548 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prologue of the 1548 "old" edition
“I am looking at you, You at him, Kabir asks, how to solve This puzzle — You, he, and I?”
Kabir (1398–1518) said by 1518 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.
“Then think I thus: "Sith such repair, So long time war of valiant men, Was all to win a lady fair, Shall I not learn to suffer then? And think my life well spent to be, Serving a worthier wight than she?”
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516–1547) said by 1547 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?”
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) said by 1519 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hindustan is a country which has few pleasures to recommend it.... Indians have no idea of the charms of friendly society, of frankly mixing together, or of familiar intercourse.... They have no horses, no good grapes, or musk melons, no good fruits, no ice or cold water, no good food or bread in their bazaars, no bath or colleges, no candles, no torches, not a candle stick”
Babur (1483–1531) said by 1531 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Даже в самой худшей судьбе есть возможности для счастливых перемен.”
Эразм Роттердамский (1466–1536) said by 1536 at the latest wikiquote:ru, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“L'huomo, in somma, è un picciol mondo, et è perfettissima e compiutissima opera di Dio.”
Stefano Guazzo (1530–1593) said by 1593 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 335.
“It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.”
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) said by 1592 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 9. Of Liars (tr. Cotton, rev. W. Hazlitt, 1842)
Also quoted by: Michael De Montaigne
“За сладкое приходится горько расплачиваться.”
Леонардо да Винчи (1452–1519) said by 1519 at the latest wikiquote:ru, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Non si conosce la virtu perfetta, Se non quando fortuna ne saetta.”
Francesco Berni (1497–1535) said by 1535 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that.”
Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) said by 1582 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Little Lamp (1981) by Eknath Easwaran, p. 80
“I need not repeat, that the most savage of the savage tribes in the forest, live among each other in amity. Lions show no fierceness to the lion race. The boar does not brandish his deadly tooth against his brother boar. The lynx lives in peace with the lynx. The serpent shews no venom in his intercourse with his fellow serpent; and the loving kindness of wolf to wolf is proverbial.”
Erasmus (1466–1536) said by 1536 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful.”
Titian (1490–1576) said by 1576 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Quotable Artist (2002) by Peggy Hadden, p. 32.
“To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge.”
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) said by 1543 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Poland : The Knight Among Nations (1907) by Louis E. Van Norman, p. 290; also in The Language of God (2006) by Francis Collins, pp. 230-31
“We condemn those who affirm that a man once justified cannot sin. ... As to the special privilege of the Virgin Mary, when they produce the celestial diploma we shall believe what they say.”
John Calvin (1509–1564) first seen 1547 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: John Calvin, Antidote to the Canons of the Council of Trent, Canon 23. (1547)
“Man is by nature unable to want God to be God. Indeed, he himself wants to be God, and does not want God to be God.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) said by 1546 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ó Rei subido, Aventurar-me a ferro, a fogo, a neve É tão pouco por vós, que mais me pena Ser esta vida cousa tão pequena.”
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) said by 1580 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'T is what you will,—or will be what you would.”
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
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) said by 1593 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First Sestiad. The same statement occurs in As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare, and a similar one in The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596) by George Chapman.
“Ludimus effigiem belli, simulataque veris Praelia, buxo acies fictas, et ludicra regna, Ut gemini inter se reges albusque, nigerque Pro laude oppositi certent bicoloribus armis.”
Marco Girolamo Vida (1480–1566) said by 1566 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source