Robert Henryson famous quotes

For to be yong I wald not, for my wis, Off all this warld to mak me lord and king: The more of age, the nerar hevynnis blis.
-- Robert Henryson

#Kings #Age #Lord

The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.
-- Robert Henryson

#Men #May #He Man

Ane bow that is ay bent Worthis ay unsmart and dullis on the string; Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent In ernistfull thochtis and in studying.
-- Robert Henryson

#Bows #Study #Strings

Best thing in eird,I say for me, Is merry hart with small possessioun.
-- Robert Henryson

#Hart

Louers be war and tak gude heid about Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine. I lat yow wit, thair is richt few thairout Quhome ye may traist to haue trew lufe agane.
-- Robert Henryson

#War #Suffering #May

Nocht is your fairnes bot ane faiding flour, Nocht is your famous laud and hie honour Bot wind inflat in uther mennis eiris.
-- Robert Henryson

#Wind #Flour #Honour

The nuttes schell, thocht it be hard and teuch,Haldis the kirnill, and is delectabill.Sa lyis thair ane doctrine wyse aneuch,And full of fruit, under ane fenyeit Fabill.
-- Robert Henryson

#Doctrine #Fruit

In breif Sermone ane pregnant sentence wryte.
-- Robert Henryson

#Sentences #Pregnant

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.