Robert Henryson quotes
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“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 HenrysonSource : c.1460 'The Praise of Age', l.5-9.
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“The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.”
-- Robert HenrysonSource : c.1460 'Robene and Makeyne', l.91-2.
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“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 HenrysonSource : c.1470 Moral Fables, prologue, l.21-5.
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“Best thing in eird,I say for me, Is merry hart with small possessioun.”
-- Robert HenrysonSource : c.1470 Moral Fables,'The Two Mice', l.387-8.
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“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 HenrysonSource : c.1470 The Testament of Cresseid, l.561-4.
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“Nocht is your fairnes bot ane faiding flour, Nocht is your famous laud and hie honour Bot wind inflat in uther mennis eiris.”
-- Robert HenrysonSource : c.1470 The Testament of Cresseid, stanza 65.
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“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.”
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“In breif Sermone ane pregnant sentence wryte.”
-- Robert HenrysonSource : Robert Henryson (1824). “Robene and Makyne: And The Testament of Cresseid”
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“My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.”
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“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
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“[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.”
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“It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”
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“I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.”
Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1862). “A Chaplet of Verses”, p.106
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