Source: Morte D'Arthur (1842), Lines 136-142
Context: The great brand
Made lightnings in the splendour of the moon,
And flashing round and round, and whirl'd in an arch,
Shot like a streamer of the northern morn,
Seen where the moving isles of winter shock
By night, with noises of the northern sea.
So flash'd and fell the brand Excalibur.
“They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.”
Source: Emir's Education In The Proper Use of Magical Powers (1979), p. 50
“The moone is made of a greene cheese.”
Part II, chapter 7.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)
“4655. The Moon is made of green Cheese.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Thought the moon was made of green cheese.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 11.
Quoted in the National Newspaper, UAE (April 14th 2016) http://www.thenational.ae/business/the-life/how-to-leave-a-successful-legacy-in-the-workplace
Miscellaneous Quotes in the Press (2002-Present)
Yr wylan deg ar lanw dioer
Unlliw ag eiry neu wenlloer,
Dilwch yw dy degwch di,
Darn fel haul, dyrnfol, heli.
"Yr Wylan" (To the Sea-gull), line 1; translation from Robert Gurney (ed. and trans.) Bardic Heritage (London: Chatto & Windus, 1969) p. 130.
“He made an instrument to know
If the moon shine at full or no.”
Canto III, line 261
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
