Falk, Act III
Love's Comedy (1862)
“Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem”
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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book
Troilus and Criseyde
Book 2, line 22-28
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)
Context: Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.
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English poet 1343–1400Related quotes
General Prologue, l. 305 - 310
Source: The Canterbury Tales
Context: Of studie took he most cure and most hede.
Noght o word spak he more than was nede,
And that was seyd in forme and reverence,
And short and quik, and ful of hy sentence.
Souninge in moral vertu was his speche,
And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
"The Kiss"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)
“It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now”
Bob Dylan
(1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Compare: "It ain't no use to sit and sigh now, darlin." Paul Clayton, Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons (When I'm Gone).
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
“Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.”
Ashleigh Brilliant
(1933) American author and cartoonist
Source: The Power-House (1916), Ch. 3 "Tells of a Midsummer Night"
Context: I cannot pry into motives. I only know of the existence of great extra-social intelligences. Let us say that they distrust the machine. They may be idealists and desire to make a new world, or they may simply be artists, loving for its own sake the pursuit of truth. If I were to hazard a guess, I should say that it took both types to bring about results, for the second find the knowledge and the first the will to use it.
“Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.”
Pericles
(-494–-429 BC) Greek statesman, orator, and general of Athens
As quoted in Eternal Greece (1961) by Rex Warner, p. 34
Context: Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
John Mandeville
(1300–1372) writer
For on whatever Part of the Earth that Men dwell, either above or beneath, it seemeth always to them, that they go more up-right than any other Folk. And right as it seemeth to us that they be under us, right so it seemeth to them that we be under them.
Source: The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt., Ch. 17