
“Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.”
Introduction, stanza 1
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
The Paradise of Dainty Devices (published 1576). Compare: "The anger of lovers renews the strength of love", Publilius Syrus, Maxim 24 (c. 1st century BC); "Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection", John Lyly, Euphues (1579); "The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), part III. sec. 2.; "Amantium irae amoris integratio est" (translation: Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love), Terence, Andria (c. 170-160 BC), act III. sc. 5 (Line 555).
“Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.”
Introduction, stanza 1
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
Though you love not to buy the pig in the poke,
Yet snatch you at the poke, that the pig is in,
Not for the poke, but the pig good cheap to win.
Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546)
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
“The Big Four: Out-read 'em. Out-study 'em. Out-present 'em. Out-listen 'em.”
November 4, 2010.
Tom Peters Daily, Weekly Quote
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)