10 Quotes by John Lydgate

You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.

Empty vessels make the most sound.

You can’t get blood from a stone.

You can satisfy some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot satisfy all of the people all the time.

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

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

A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.

Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.

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