I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.

In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple,…

— William Sharp

“I’d like to play a game of Marco Polo—in the 13th century.”

— Jarod Kintz

Our forefathers did without sugar until the 13th century, without coal fires until the 14th, without buttered bread until the 16th, without tea or…

— Elias Canetti

The jury system is one of the few ideas from the 13th century which still flourishes in the 21st century.

— Damian Green

The presence of industrial quantities of Byzantine pottery dating from the sixth century AD on the headland at Tintagel, Chinese silk in the tombs…

— Bettany Hughes

I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love

— Michael Ondaatje

“Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy…

— Muslih Al-Din Mushrif Ibn Abd Allah Al Saadi 1184 1283

“Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy…

— Muslih Al-Din Mushrif Ibn Abd Allah Al Saadi 1184 1283

“Persian poet said, the rose blooms reddest where some buried Caesar bled. The”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Don’t go to sleep one night, wrote Rūmī, the thirteenth-century Persian poet. What you most want will come to you then.”

— Phil Knight

“If a holy man eats half his loaf, he will give the other half to a beggar. But if a king conquers all the…

— Abraham Eraly

“Don't place me in the lineage of your tribal white giants, they were cute little smart kids, but that's all, my peers of heart…

— Abhijit Naskar

Without my relatives, I am but a thread; together, we form a colorful and elaborate Persian carpet.

— Firoozeh Dumas

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a…

— Shimon Peres

I am by nature the most intolerant and insular Englishman... If you happen to be a person like that and you learn from evidence…

— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding