quotes quiz (fwd)

[Dick Eney <dickeney@access.digex.net>]

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This is copied from the Marinus news leter MOOT POINTS from this month. I
assume the answers will come next month.

Good luck.
   Miriam Esther bat Issachar

Quotable Quotes Quiz
What famous man or woman said, or is reputed to have said:

1) Paris is worth a mass.
Henri IV Bourbon, then King of Navarre.

2) My kingdom for a horse.
Richard III Plantagenet, King of England (but not for much longer...)

3) To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my
horse,German.
Emperor Charles V

4)Squire Henry means to play God
got me on that one.

5) Give me chastity and continence, Oh Lord, but not just now
St. Augustine.  Better he should have prayed for good sense.

6) E pur si muove. (But it still moves)
Galileo Galilei, after being forced to recant his "heresy".

7) Bold bawdry and open manslaughter.
Some critic of Shakespeare

8) ______, by the wrath of God, Queen of England
John Knox, speaking of Elizabeth I

9) That day we read no further.
Paolo, who had been reading a romance with Francesca (acto Dante...)

10) Had I but served God as diligently as I have served my King, he would not
have given me over in my grey hairs.
The last Cardinal of England, whose name escapes me for the moment; the
King he had served (with less diligence than he pretended) was Henry VIII.

11) Will no man rid me of this meddlesome priest?
Henry III Plantagenet, of Thomas a Becket.  He got three takers.

12)Kill them all, and God will know his own.
St. Dominic, explaining how to deal with the difficulty of telling French
speaking Provencal Cathars (bad) from French speaking Provencal Catholics
(good).

13) Brother, I am too old to go on my travels again.
Charles II Stuart, explaining to his brother Jim why he didn't stand up to
those demnation Puritans in Parliament.

14) Let the boy win his spurs.
Henry III Plantagenet, being told that the division commanded by his son
Edward (aw, you know -- the Black Prince) was being hotly pressed by the
French at Crecy.

15) Quick as boiled asparagus
Augustus Caesar...and I think it was "quick as you can boil asparagus",
which should be just lightly boiled so it remains crisp.

16) Men will sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their
patrimony.
Niccolo Machiavelli

17) Friends, Romans, countrymen: lend me your ears.
Marcus Antonius, over the body of Julius Caesar

18) God hath given us the Papacy, not let us enjoy it.
"No_w_ let us enjoy it".  One of the Renaissance popes; Alexander VI
Borgia, if I recall rightly.

19) Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall light this
day such a candle in England as (I trust), shall never be put out.
Archbishop Latimer, about to be burned at the stake by Bloody Mary.  It
hasn't been put out yet...

20) It was never merry in England while we had cardinals amoung us.
Got me on this one, too.

21) As we were saying yesterday....(beginning of his first lecture after 5
years in the Inquisitions prisons).
I've heard a similar story about Eamon de Valera, but it wasn't him that
said this.

22) What a good vassal, if he had a good lord.
Raymond of Toulouse, referring to Ruy Diaz de Bivar, el Cid.

23) En casa muy cuerda,en cama muy loca. (Prudent in household matters, but a
madwoman in bed.)
Doubtfully, Ferdinand of Aragon, referring to Isabella of Castile.  (His
wife.  Why would you think anything else?)

24) Non Angli, sed Angeli. (Not Angles, but Angels)
St. Augustine again, this time speaking of some fair-haired slaves whose
nationality he had asked about.  ("Them?  They's Angles...")

25) Quante bella giovanezza...(how lovely is youth, that ever flies...)
Awk!  This is part of "Giovanezza", the anthem of Mussolini's Fascists.
He doubtless stole it from somewhere, but I don't know where.

|---------Master Vuong Manh, C.P., Storvik, Atlantia---------|
|Now, let's stop and think: how would Bugs Bunny handle this?|
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