John Lydgate Quotes

• Empty vessels make the most sound.

  John Lydgate

  Wise, Wisdom, Empty Vessels

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• You can't get blood from a stone.

  John Lydgate

  Blood, Stones

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• All is not golde that outward shewith bright.

  John Lydgate

  Appearance

  John Lydgate, William Rowley (1842). “A Search for Money: Or, The Lamentable Complaint for the Loss of the Wandering Knight, Monsieur L'Argent”, p.22

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• A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.

  John Lydgate

  Monk

  John Lydgate (1975). “Early English Text Society: Extra series”

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• Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.

  John Lydgate

  Grievance, Comparison

  "Bochas", Book III, Chapter VIII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 125-27, 1922.

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• Woord is but wynd; leff woord and tak the dede.

  John Lydgate

  Taks

  'Secrees of Old Phillsoffres' l. 1224

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• For love is mor than gold or gret richesse; Gold faileth ofte; love wol abyde.

  John Lydgate

  Love Is, Gold

  John Lydgate (2001). “The Siege of Thebes”, Western Michigan Univ Medieval

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• For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January.

  John Lydgate

  May, Cold, January

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• All is not golde that shewyth goldishe hewe.

  John Lydgate

  Appearance

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 34-36, Chorle and Byrde, 1922.

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