He probably spoke only his native language, Coptic, but his sayings were spread in a Greek translation.

Claudius ' extant letters, speeches, and sayings were incorporated into the text ( mostly in the second book, Claudius the God ) in order to add authenticity.

At some time in antiquity he acquired this epithet denoting that his major sayings were difficult to understand.

160 ), sometimes refers to written sources consisting of narratives of the life of Jesus and quotations of the sayings of Jesus as " memoirs of the apostles " ( Greek: ἀπομνημονεύματα τῶν ἀποστόλων ; transliteration: apomnêmoneúmata tôn apostólôn ) and less frequently as gospels ( Greek: εὐαγγέλιον ; transliteration: euangélion ) which, Justin says, were read every Sunday in the church at Rome ( 1 Apol.

Indigenous moral precepts of the Mongols were enshrined in oral wisdom sayings ( now collected in several volumes ), the anda ( blood-brother ) system and ancient texts such as the Chinggis-un Bilig ( Wisdom of Genghis ) and Oyun Tulkhuur ( Key of Intelligence ).

A number of the well known sayings of Jesus, Shakespeare, and others have become proverbs, though they were original at the time of their creation.

Polycarp lived in an age after the deaths of the apostles, when a variety of interpretations of the sayings of Jesus were being preached.

The debate about dating is critical, since some argue that it reflects the " true, recorded, sayings " of Jesus, which is possible if they were to be dated as far back as the 1st century.

These sayings purporting to be from Spartan women were far more likely to be of Athenian origin and designed to portray Spartan women as unnatural and so undeserving of pity.

In addition to being credited for pithy sayings, the wise men were also apparently famed for practical inventions ; in Plato's Republic ( 600a ), it is said that it " befits a wise man " to have " many inventions and useful devices in the crafts or sciences " attributed to him, citing Thales and Anacharsis the Scythian as examples.

The sayings of Sengoku-period retainers and warlords such as Kato Kiyomasa and Nabeshima Naoshige were generally recorded or passed down to posterity around the turn of the 16th century when Japan had entered a period of relative peace.

The sermons, lectures, sayings and poetry were compiled shortly after Dōgen ’ s death by his main disciples, Koun Ejō ( 孤雲懐奘, 1198 – 1280 ), Senne and Gien.

A number of apocryphal sayings were attributed to him.

And also if any follower of the Presbyters happened to come, I would inquire for the sayings of the Presbyters, what Andrew said, or what Peter said, or what Philip or what Thomas or James or what John or Matthew or any other of the Lord's disciples, and for the things which other of the Lord's disciples, and for the things which Aristion and the Presbyter John, the disciples of the Lord, were saying.

: ` And this the Presbyter used to say is in the plural implying John the Elder would employ this argument multiple times in defense of Mark's Gospel: " Mark, being the recorder of Peter, wrote accurately but not in order whatever he remembered of the things either said or done by the Lord ; for he had neither heard the Lord nor followed him, but later, as I said, Peter, who used to make teachings according to the cheias, special kind of anecdote but not making as it were a systematic composition of the Lord's sayings ; so that Mark did not err at all when he wrote certain things just as he had recalled.

Almost half of these sayings resemble those found in the Canonical Gospels, while it is speculated that the other sayings were added from Gnostic tradition.

The text itself, however, continuously reflects Gnostic teachings by continuously referring to Jesus's sayings as " secret " and " mysterious ", which were common gnostic catchphrases.

Prior to the Nag Hammadi library discovery, the sayings of Jesus found in Oxyrhynchus were known simply as Logia Iesu.

They assert that other collections of sayings, such as the Q document and the collection underlying Mark 4, were absorbed into larger narratives and no longer survive as independent documents, and that no later collections in this form survive.

Sentiments were expressed in song lyrics and popular sayings of the period, such as " do your own thing ", " turn on, tune in, drop out ", " whatever turns you on ", " Eight miles high ", " sex, drugs, and rock ' n ' roll ", and " light my fire ".

The moral maxims, which were a constant feature of his writings, were largely drawn upon by Macanus Chrysocephalas, metropolitan of Philadelphia ( middle of the 14th century ), in his Rodonia ( rose-garden ), a voluminous collection of ethical sayings.

It posits that the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke were based on the Gospel of Mark and a hypothetical sayings collection from the Christian Oral Tradition called Q.

One of her most frequently quoted sayings is a quip about her famously voluptuous figure: " Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti.

They use the Qur ' an, the Sunnah, and sayings of the Sahaba-this being the middle path where the attributes of Allah are accepted without questioning ' how ' they are ; as this is regarded as an innovation as famously quoted by Imam Malik when asked regarded the Throne of Allah.

His writings and sayings continue to be much quoted today, and are often affectionately referred to as Shehu in Nigeria.

So much so that one of the sayings of the Muslim prophet Mohammad, commonly referred to as ahadith ( singular hadith ) instructs Muslims to " Make oaths only on Allah almighty, the Master of all beings, and protect them more than your lives " ( Sahih Bukhari 45: 15 ).

They acknowledge that many individual sayings of Jesus as found in the Gospels are translations from an Aramaic source normally referred to as Q, but hold that the Gospels ' text in its current form was composed in Greek, and so were the other New Testament writings.

The adherents of this movement ( sometimes referred to as Salafis ) consider it as such, because they find no evidence for its establishment in any of the four major Sunni sources of jurisprudence ( Qur ' an ( the central religious text of Islam ) • Sunnah ( the observed ways of living and sayings of Muhammad ) • Ijma ' ( consensus of the community of Muslims ) • Qiyas ( process of analogical reasoning from a known injunction ( nass ) to a new injunction )).

Such a collection of sayings of Jesus are believed to be referred to by Papias of Hierapolis.

His collected works composed of series of Persian poetry ( Divan ) are to be found in the homes of most people in Persia ( Iran ), Afghanistan and Tajikistan, as well as elsewhere in the world, who learn his poems by heart and use them as proverbs and sayings to this day.

Chishti also read collections of the sayings, speeches, poems, and letters of the shaykhs.

The Almanack contained the calendar, weather, poems, sayings and astronomical and astrological information that a typical almanac of the period would contain.

Citing examples of classical poems like Bhartrihari, the Bible, Homer, and Shakespeare, Müller felt that few of the sayings would have to be bowdlerized.

Diogenes Laertius describes him as a writer of Elegiac poems, and attributes many sayings to him:

The rune poems have been theorized as having been mnemonic devices that allowed the user to remember the order and names of each letter of the alphabet and may have been a catalog of important cultural information, memorably arranged ; comparable with the Old English sayings, Gnomic poetry, and Old Norse poetry of wisdom and learning.

He was a skilled and impressive preacher, who drew large crowds wherever he traveled, yet most of Ramananda ’ s poems and sayings were not preserved.

And this day is indeed a Sabbath to me, for it is the last day of my present laborious life, and on it I rest after the fatigues of my labours ; and this night at midnight, which commenceth the solemn Lord's Day, I shall, according to the sayings of Scripture, go the way of our fathers.

It consists of seven miracles or " signs ," interspersed with long dialogues and discourses, including several " I am " sayings.

In one of the sayings of Muhammad, in the collection of Imam Bukhari, it says that Muhammad said " One should not say that I am better than Jonah ".

I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years ' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock.

In his letter Peng first wrote one of his most widely quoted sayings: " I want to be a Hai Rui!

He is popularly known as the author of two sayings: " If I am not for myself, who will be for me?

Foxe is credited with the authorship of several proverbial sayings, such as " the surest way to peace is a constant preparedness for war " and " time and I will challenge any two in the world.

" This veneration is based on a number of records of the sayings of Muhammad who said, " I am the best Salaf for you " and, as narrated in the Sahih al-Bukhari of ` Abd Allah ibn ` Umar, a companion of Muhammad ; " The best people are those of my generation, and then those who will come after them and then those who will come after them ..."| Sahih al-Bukhari collected by Muhammad al-Bukhari. Other narrations indicate that there will follow people who will bear false witness of Islam.

The tractate includes several of the most frequently-quoted rabbinic sayings, such as " If I am not for myself, who will be for me?

After having quoted sayings of the rabbis, to the effect that the sinner who repents may rank higher than he who has never sinned, Bahya quotes the words of one of the masters to his disciples: " Were you altogether free from sin, I should be afraid of what is far greater than sin — that is, pride and hypocrisy.

According to the Pratchett Portfolio, his typical saying is "' tis a lie sir, I never done it ", ( like all other " typical sayings " in the Portfolio ( except that of the Death of Rats ) he has not actually been recorded saying it ).

Two reported sayings, " the problems are there ", and " I don't care how you get hold of the gadget, I just want to know how big or small it is ", sum up the attitude, and could be transplanted today into any discussion of combinatorics.

If, then, any one who had attended on the elders came, I asked minutely after their sayings ,-- what Andrew or Peter said, or what was said by Philip, or by Thomas, or by James, or by John, or by Matthew, or by any other of the Lord's disciples: which things Aristion and the presbyter John, the disciples of the Lord, say.

" I take the name of Allaah " and say " accept Rasulallaah ( Sallallahu alayhi wasallam ) sayings ".

He has said: " One of the greatest sayings that I have heard was that you have to be prepared to suffer.

I presume that my experience is like that of others, when I say that hardly a week of my life has passed in which I have not recalled some of his apt sayings and to my great advantage.

7. 10-16 ), where he quotes Jesus ' sayings (" not I but the Lord ") and then gives his own independent (" I and not the Lord ") rules.