Humorous Sayings
264 sayings found from the Medieval era from 13 authors
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O you who have sound intellects, look closely at the doctrine that is hidden beneath the veil of the strange verses!
The more perfect a thing is, the more it is subject to good and bad.
I did not die, and yet I was not living.
O blind greed, and foolish mortals' minds, that spur you on in life with such desire!
The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
If, then, the present world goes astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
My hopes are not of this world.
All hope abandon, ye who enter in!
Sweet is the memory of past toil.
The soul that is not saved is lost.
That day we read no more.
He who climbs highest falls deepest.
The more divine the thing, the more it is hated by the wicked.
And from that time, I say that to love all good is to love God.
The human race is at its best when it is most free.
Think not that I am come to bring peace on earth: I came not to bring peace, but a sword.
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
The greatest pleasure a man can have is to be loved.
O souls, who are so sick and heavy-laden, look to the light that never sets!