15 Quotes by Ludovico Ariosto

La luna non è che il complemento della terra, il suo rovescio speculare, il luogo dove s’aduna tutto ciò che sulla terra si perde.

This dog won’t hunt. This horse won’t jump. You get the general drift. However, he keeps on trying,but the fire won’t burn, the kindling is wet,and the faint glow of the ember is weak and dying.He has no other choice then but to letIt go and take a nap on the ground there, lyingNext to her—for whom Dame Fortune has moreWoes and tribulations yet in store.

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

We soon believe the things we would believe.

Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

They think they have God Almighty by the toe.