Sir Thomas Malory quote: "Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so."

Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, an...
SIR THOMAS MALORY

For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
SIR THOMAS MALORY

Wit thou well that I will notlive long after thy days.
SIR THOMAS MALORY

What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?
SIR THOMAS MALORY

And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY

For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through ...
SIR THOMAS MALORY

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.
SIR THOMAS MALORY

For love that time was not as love is nowadays.
SIR THOMAS MALORY

And anon there came in a dove at a window, and in her mouth there seemed a little censer of gold, an...
SIR THOMAS MALORY

Then Sir Launcelot saw her visage, but he wept not greatly, but sighed!
SIR THOMAS MALORY

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
SIR THOMAS MALORY

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
THOMAS MALORY

And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for que...
THOMAS MALORY

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knigh...
THOMAS MALORY

For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through ...
THOMAS MALORY

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.
THOMAS MALORY

This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the ques...
THOMAS MALORY

What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?
THOMAS MALORY

The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.
THOMAS MALORY

The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.
THOMAS MALORY

Ah Gawaine, Gawaine, ye have betrayed me; for never shall my court be amended by you, but ye will ne...
THOMAS MALORY

Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and deter...
SIR THOMAS TREVES

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Rich with the spoils of nature.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by makin...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain ...
SIR THOMAS WYATT

Never despair, keep pushing on!
SIR THOMAS LIPTON

Patience, though I have not
The thing that I require,
I must of force, God wot,
Forbear my...
SIR THOMAS WYATT

Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.
SIR THOMAS MORE

It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the trues...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Life is pure flame.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Chari...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his pro...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to depriv...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Death is the cure for all diseases.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

And first Satan's endeavours have ever been, and they cease not yet to instill a belief in the minde...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effec...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping m...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
SIR THOMAS MORE

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

There is no road or ready way to virtue.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magic of numbers.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't ...
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Ma...
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

It is we that are blind, not fortune.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any w...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them...
SIR THOMAS OVERBORE

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, whe...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,--the only ...
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and es...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

God is like a skilful Geometrician.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, w...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary sp...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is b...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table amon...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. - Sir Th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: I desire to exercise my faith in the...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his pr...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident o...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Women do most delight in revenge.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for...
SIR THOMAS MORE

For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good tourne we...
SIR THOMAS MORE

To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot ho...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, i...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Fesaunt excedeth all fowles in sweetnesse and holsomnesse, and is equall to capon in nourishynge.
SIR THOMAS ELYOT

They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.
SIR THOMAS MORE

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homag...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the ...
SIR THOMAS MORE

" i am a man, not a duck, llama, or fish, once a man, always a man"
SIR STUART THOMAS

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
SIR THOMAS MORE

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so m...
SIR THOMAS MORE

This hath not offended the king.
SIR THOMAS MORE

Why dost thou gaze upon the sky?
O that I were yon spangled sphere!
Then every star should b...
SIR THOMAS MORE

Nay, tempt me not to love again:
There was a time when love was sweet;
Dear Nea! had I known...
SIR THOMAS MORE

Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take.
SIR THOMAS ELYOT

Then on the grounde Togyder rounde With manye a sadde stroke, They roll and rumble, ...
SIR THOMAS MORE

[The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end ...
SIR THOMAS ROE

Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.
SIR THOMAS WYATT

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist Continuing a series on God and the human condition: If we...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die: And as gently lay my head ...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands - and all yo...
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

Try everything once except folk dancing and incest.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM

She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall e...
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
SIR THOMAS MORE

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
SIR THOMAS MORE

Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound.
SIR THOMAS MORE

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
SIR THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insigni...
SIR THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON

'Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fe...
SIR THOMAS NOON TALFOURD (TALFORD)

Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.
SIR GIRAD

No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man's ego li...
SIR WILLIAM

There are signs that the younger generation is different, that they will not kill their daughters fo...
AYTEKIN SIR

These people brought the mentality of small villages into the big cities.
AYTEKIN SIR

There was no difference between the answers of the men and the uneducated women in the poll. Only ed...
AYTEKIN SIR

It is so hard to change people's mentality. It will take many years.
AYTEKIN SIR

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
SIR GIRAD

Once a women has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishe...
SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN

Look you, Amanda, you may build Castles in the Air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and ...
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native l...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world command...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dare...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glor...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdam...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

The frivolous work of polished idleness. - Sir James Mackintosh,
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH

Where billows never break, not tempests roar.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH

An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
SIR HENRY WOTTON

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad...
SIR MAX BEERBOHM

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while the iron is hot.
SIR EDWARD HOBY

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o...
SIR HUGH WALPOLE

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinki...
SIR WILLIAM BRAGG

If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
SIR WILLIAM JONES

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must b...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wis...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to ...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine -- but divine in the sense that all great bo...
SIR ARTHUR KEITH

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I re...
SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
SIR RICHARD STEELE

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may...
SIR RICHARD STEELE

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but t...
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON

It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin be...
SIR SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
SIR JOHN DENHAM

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtu...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.
SIR RONALD MASON

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
SIR HUGH WALPOLE

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to tho...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON

The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.
SIR HENEAGE OGILVIE

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profe...
SIR THEODORE MARTIN

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
SIR RICHARD STEELE

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
SIR RICHARD STEELE

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of rec...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Sir Thomas Malory

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