Otis Redding (1941–1967) American singer, songwriter and record producer
Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song), co-written with Steve Cropper.
Song lyrics, Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul (1966)
Reported in Dante Leonardi, Spighe d'oro, Remo Sandron Editore, 1924.
Untranslated
Otis Redding (1941–1967) American singer, songwriter and record producer
Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song), co-written with Steve Cropper.
Song lyrics, Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul (1966)
“I prudenti devono sempre far conto di morir presto, e perciò fare al più tosto quello che devono.”
Pope Sixtus V (1520–1590) pope
Reported in Dante Leonardi, Spighe d'oro, Remo Sandron Editore, 1924.
Untranslated
“La Perfezione? Essere il più umano possibile.”
Giovanni Morassutti (1980) Italian actor, theatre director and cultural entrepreneur.
From the official website
“We'll play jacks and Uno cards
I'll be your best friend
And you'll be mine”
Fergie (1975) singer from the United States
"Big Girls Don't Cry" (2006), from The Dutchess.
“Ché bel fin fa chi ben amando more.”
Francesco Petrarca Il Canzoniere
For he makes a good end who dies loving well.
Canzone 140, last line
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
“Non può dirsi felice uno, se non quando si contenta del proprio stato.”
Pope Sixtus V (1520–1590) pope
Reported in Dante Leonardi, Spighe d'oro, Remo Sandron Editore, 1924.
Untranslated
Johannes Kepler book Harmonices Mundi
Book V, Ch. 6 as quoted in Arthur Koestler, The Sleepwalkers (1959)
Harmonices Mundi (1618)
John Skelton (1460–1529) English poet
Source: Jane Scroop (her lament for Philip Sparrow) (likely published c. 1509), Lines 1-16; the poem is about a girl who is distraught that her family's pet cat has killed her pet bird, a sparrow; the poem is the basis for the later nursery rhyme, Who Killed Cock Robin? The opening line, PLA ce bo, is from a canticle for the dead.