Top 9 Quotes by John Lydgate

Empty vessels make the most sound.

Wise, Wisdom, Empty Vessels

You can't get blood from a stone.

Blood, Stones

All is not golde that outward shewith bright.

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

A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.

Monk

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

Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.

Grievance, Comparison

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

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

Taks

'Secrees of Old Phillsoffres' l. 1224

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

Love Is, Gold

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

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

May, Cold, January

All is not golde that shewyth goldishe hewe.

Appearance

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

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