„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“

„EEK EEK EEK!! That's dolphin for 'I'm sorry.' But you already knew that..“

—  Tucker Max Internet personality; blogger; author 1975

„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.“

—  Geoffrey Chaucer, book The Canterbury Tales

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.

„Before the wonderful, terrible wrestling with words and music there is the state of mind I'm calling 'poetic attention' … a sort of readiness … a form of knowing.“

—  Don McKay Canadian poet 1942

Baler Twine

„Then he was wrong to have been born at all. Cheek- eek-eek-eek, oo, hoo!“

—  L. Frank Baum Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter 1856 - 1919

chuckled Rinkitink, his fat body shaking with merriment. "But it's hard to prevent oneself from being born; there's no chance for protest, eh, Bilbil?"
Rinkitink of Oz (1916), Ch. 5 : The Three Pearls
Later Oz novels

„For tho' I know he loves me,
To-night my heart is sad;
His kiss was not so wonderful
As all the dreams I had.“

—  Sara Teasdale, The Kiss

"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 American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

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, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

„Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.“

—  Philippa Gregory, book The Other Boleyn Girl

Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

„Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.“

—  Ashleigh Brilliant American author and cartoonist 1933

„Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.“

—  Pericles Greek statesman, orator, and general of Athens -494 - -429 BC

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.

„And for to see, and eek for to be seie.“

—  Geoffrey Chaucer, book The Canterbury Tales

The Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 6134
The Canterbury Tales

„Need some help?' he asked.
'Yes!' I yelled at him 'Help us!'
'What's the magic word?'
'Now!'
'Close enough.“

—  Michelle Rowen Canadian writer 1971

Source: Dark Kiss

„For fro what partie of the Erthe, that men duelle, outher aboven or benethen, it semethe always to hem that duellen, that thei gon more righte than ony other folk. And righte as it semethe to us, that thei ben undre us, righte so it semethe hem, that wee ben undre hem.“

—  John Mandeville writer 1300 - 1372

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

„601. The fatt man knoweth not what the leane thinketh.“

—  George Herbert Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593 - 1633

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

„As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be“

—  James Allen, book As a Man Thinketh

Source: As a Man Thinketh

„I cannot pry into motives. I only know of the existence of great extra-social intelligences. Let us say that they distrust the machine.“

—  John Buchan, book The Power-House

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.

„Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swych licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halve cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye
(So priketh hem nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages.“

—  Geoffrey Chaucer, book The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 1-12
The Canterbury Tales

„One cannot truly trace the course of a life in a thousand pages. Let us have the reticence here not to attempt it in a thousand words.“

—  Samuel R. Delany, book Tales of Nevèrÿon

Section 2 (p. 46)
Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)

„The word of God is solid; it will stand a thousand readings; and the man who has gone over it the most frequently and the most carefully is the surest of finding new wonders there.“

—  James Hamilton Scottish minister and a prolific author of religious tracts 1814 - 1867

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 36.

„"Then he was wrong to have been born at all. Cheek- eek-eek-eek, oo, hoo!" chuckled Rinkitink, his fat body shaking with merriment. "But it's hard to prevent oneself from being born; there's no chance for protest, eh, Bilbil?"“

—  L. Frank Baum Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter 1856 - 1919

Rinkitink of Oz (1916), Ch. 5 : The Three Pearls
Later Oz novels