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sadan4088: John Lydgate: A Versatile and Influential English Poet of the 15th Centu...

DeadByDaleLigh1: QoTD: "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." John Lydgate

Brill_Lit_Cult: Review of 'John Lydgate, The Dance of Death, and its model, the French Danse Macabre' -

CJOlanasty33: “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”. - John Lydgate

nylpdj: DJs & Producers remember: “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” - John Lydgate

_kramki: 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”. - John Lydgate Or more dramatically: 1/3

lynes_frederic: “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”. - John Lydgate

NoelleTifanie: 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”. John Lydgate Work in good faith towards the goals of all people not corporations Bc corporations aren’t people

postfaisal: The following quote is attributed to the poet John Lydgate and later adapted by President Lincoln: “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”.

KinsellaGarrett: I keep hearing people say ; what’s the point of voting for the others but; it’s difficult to run a restaurant and cater for everyone’s needs. All explained in quote by : ( John Lydgate) ‘You can please some of the people’ etc.

joshrowe: 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. - John Lydgate of Bury

culturaltutor: 31. Troilus and Cressida (1601) Based most of all on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde (1380s), the Troy Book by John Lydgate (15th century), and Recueil des Histoires de Troye, a French tale translated by William Caxton in 1464.

BeyondShakes: We continue pageantry month with a playlist of John Lydgate material. There's a triumphal royal entry for Henry VI, as well as a lot of other semi theatrical material - some of which is royal, but also some guild entertainments, so part of our mix. 3/~

clintmorrisonjr: Every single day I wish the focus of my dissertation was John Lydgate. I came to Lydgate too late in the project’s development. I do like my project (a lot! … most days.)

Badoortik: “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”. John Lydgate

BadgerPoliGuy: There are very few forums left on TV where they genuinely bring people people of all political stripes together to discuss the issues of the day in a casual way. John Lydgate once said "You can please some of the people all the time, or all people some of the time 11/x

SaveEnglishFolk: from John Lydgate, monk, Bury St Edmunds in the 15th century

JennyNoakes: The words of John Lydgate, he was a monk of Bury St Edmunds in the 15th C

azforeman: Probably less intelligible to modern readers today than Villon's archaism would have been to French speakers in his time, though. Maybe I need to shoot for a little later with the English. More Thomas Wyatt, less John Lydgate.

David_Blixt: "Odyous of olde been comparisonis, And of comparisonis engendyrd is haterede." - John Lydgate, 1440 "Comparisons are odorous." - Dogberry, Much Ado About Nothing "Comparison is the thief of joy." - Theodore Roosevelt

RealmTrekker: John Lydgate is on my list along with F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Bb4Global: 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”. John Lydgate

icome2022: You will have the chance to visit our wonderful Archives & Special Collections department & see items like MS Hunter 5, John Lydgate's Fall of Princes (c.1470-80). The full programme & registration links are on the website. Join us!

22Q11_Ireland: "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”. John Lydgate

wayne_shirley: “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.” ― John Lydgate

DrFrancisYoung: This was how a 15th-century monk of Bury St Edmunds imagined an ancient Greek statue (King Laius kneels before Apollo in John Lydgate's Fall of Princes, BL MS Harley 1766 fol. 43). An unsubtle reminder of the Christian view that pagans worshipped demons...

hedgethomist: Robert Burton’s English poets: Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Chaucer, Lydgate, Spenser, Sir John Harrington, Samuel Daniel—:“it’s all there already”

daotrader_: "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" - John Lydgate

KKK55826295: 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. (John Lydgate)

ifergitme_fedup: /2… WHY are we allowing roughly >1k pp to call the shots here. It’s so ridiculous it’s not funny. John Lydgate said “….. you can’t please all the people all of the time” truer words were never spoken snd valid now as it was then……/3

BeanieMcfly: “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” ~ John Lydgate

johar_amor: "You can please some people all the time and all people some of the time, but you can’t please all people all the time." — John Lydgate

medievalmvb: 'the queen Fortune and her wheel'—in John Lydgate’s Troy book (1460)

harlaxtonmedsym: The image shows Anne, who was archivist of the Mercers' Company 1981-99, as Master of the Mercers at John Lydgate's Mumming for the Mercers of London, Harlaxton 2012.

harlaxtonmedsym: The image shows Anne, who was archivist of the Mercers' Company 1981-99, at the 2012 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium as Master of the Mercers in the performance of John Lydgate's Mumming for the Mercers of London.

DrFrancisYoung: Ooh I look forward to reading this. The London of John Lydgate!

AdamLGRing: “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.” - John Lydgate (1370-1450)

davetheblue690: “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”. John Lydgate Has never been truer than in todays society..

helloericma: "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." -John Lydgate But I try.

k_charudatt: 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 ~John Lydgate.

noblesingh01: "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”. John Lydgate

TomSyvret: He was quoting a 15th Century Monk John Lydgate…..nothing much changes in our world except that there seem to be more people taking offence at everything?

Hardly_Hispanic: For my content creator peeps today: “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.” ~John Lydgate

BLMedieval: Steal a kiss: a thief tried to bite a jewel from the shrine of St Edmund while pretending to kiss it. Edmund ensured that he was stuck until he repented, according to a poem by John Lydgate. Sarah Salih explains:

2_Sides_1_Aim: “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.” John Lydgate

JohnHthePoet: “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”.” ― John Lydgate

Lisa1LinenLady: “U can please some of the ppl all of the time,U can please all of the ppl some of the time, but you can't please all of the ppl all of the time - 15th-century monk & poet, John Lydgate

WisdomChannel: 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”. John Lydgate

yoursmedievally: (Francis Mickus) The Invisible Image (Matthew Davis) "Made in wyse of balade": Using the Digital to Complicate the Lines between Codex and Performance in the Works of John Lydgate (+)

yoursmedievally: April 23, 11.00-12.30 Medieval Digital Humanities II (Francis Mickus) The Invisible Image (Matthew Davis) "Made in wyse of balade": Using the Digital to Complicate the Lines between Codex and Performance in the Works of John Lydgate (+)

yoursmedievally: April 23, 11.00-12.30 Medieval Digital Humanities II (Francis Mickus) The Invisible Image (Matthew Davis) "Made in wyse of balade": Using the Digital to Complicate the Lines between Codex and Performance in the Works of John Lydgate (+)

BeineckeLibrary: The Fall of Princes John Lydgate (Takamiya MS 30)

15thcgossipgirl: World-class literary snark. But surely nothing can beat Joseph Ritson’s characterization of John Lydgate as a ‘voluminous, prosaick, and driveling monk’.

wailewayalice: "For agein Dethe nothing may abide, And windes grete gon doun with litil reyn" - Dance of Death, John Lydgate

althecat: This very famous and very old quote encapsulates the dilemma. “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”. - John Lydgate

a2fan: “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”.” ― John Lydgate That's reality when you're on the board of a committee trying to put on a safe conference during COVID.

morvasaati: I was curious about the smart design tradeoffs, and came across this quote: “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.” - John Lydgate

houseofdramas: “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”- John Lydgate.

Lydgate_Batley: Year 5/6 were extremely proud of their Savannah lion paintings with the help from virtual artist, John Dyer. Excellent art skills, particularly observation drawing were demonstrated by all pupils.

snarkout: The answer seems to be a footnote to Halliwell’s edition of John Lydgate’s Minor Poems in 1840, as quoted in an anonymous article from 1847 on London street peddler cries:

hasudi: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” ~Abraham Lincoln~ Or so said the fifteenth-century monk and poet, John Lydgate

JoeyWhitford: “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”.” ― John Lydgate

PaulMackelzie: “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”. — John Lydgate

screwloose1980: John Bly's Blacksmith Shop, Lydgate Lane

BeineckeLibrary: The Fall of Princes John Lydgate (Takamiya MS 30)

22Q11_Ireland: "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”. ~ John Lydgate

riyeff: radical take: john lydgate is actually good.

blablafishcakes: “You can please some of the Twitter all of the time, you can please all of the Twitter some of the time, but you can’t please all of the rad fems and gender sceptics on Twitter all of the time.” John Lydgate, poet, 1422.

TSM_Humanist: “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” ~ John Lydgate

ClerkofOxford: The 'feast' of O Sapientia appears among the red-letter saints' days of December, as versified in John Lydgate's calendar poem: 'Graunte us in herte to joye and syng With all other seyntes in thy presence Thy worthy swete songe, O Sapience.'

screwloose1980: John Bly's Blacksmith Shop, Lydgate Lane, on a snowy day, date unknown

john_splatt: Today is the birthday of Mary Ann Evans ( ‘George Eliot’). Here’s my favourite quote from her character in Middlemarch, Dr Tertius Lydgate, on the appeal of a life in medicine.

Jenni_Design: “‘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.’ - John Lydgate” — Anyuan Wang

DrRebeccaPinner: According to the 15th C CE Suffolk hagiographer John Lydgate, who wrote a version of the legend of St Edmund, the saintly king actually founded Hunstanton, as Lydgate claims that 'at his [Edmund's] comyng he bilt a roial toun...which is this day callid Hunstanston' (l. 688) 2/6

InterlaceKnots: CALLIGRAPHIC INTERLACED INITIAL D(uringe the tyme of this seasone...): a unicorn John Lydgate, monke of Berry [Bury St Edmunds Abbey] Testament Incipit BL Royal MS 18 D II f3v

InterlaceKnots: INTERLACED PRAYER INITIAL: O MIGHTY LORD OF POWER mightiest... boar caught surrounded in a profusion of webbing & weaving while text requests goodness & mercy to delay "rigoure to punysh my wickednes" John Lydgate Testament Incipit BL Royal MS 18 D II f2v

dmit131: Poem of the Day 1 November 2021 - from The Testament of John Lydgate BY JOHN LYDGATE Behold my love, and gyf me thyn ageyn;      Behold, I deyde thy raunsom for to paye. Se howe myn herte is open brode and pleyn,      Thy gostly enemyes onely...

anildlf: बहुत मुश्किल काम है सभी रिश्तों को खुश रखना.. चिराग जलाते ही.. अंधेरे रूठ जाते हैं.. “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”.” ― John Lydgate

a_fa15: “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”. John Lydgate

imbalaska: What's that old saying? 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”. John Lydgate

jessrachelhoney: A very incongruous morning - the first half spent in a supervision about the ever contradictory John Lydgate and giving essay tutorials, and the second half spent filming a Ricky Martin Halloween music video...

Satyrane: Just heard the incredibly sad news about Derek Pearsall’s passing. My first ever publication was on John Lydgate, & it would not have been had it not been for Pearsall’s work. That publication contributed to getting my first (temp) job. I won’t be the only scholar in his debt.

Sopphy: All is not golde that outward shewith bright. - John Lydgate

ridilculous: Revolution 1689 in england. John Lydgate, twenty-eight years old at the time. He was a lawyer and scholar who lived in

enliven651: “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." - John Lydgate

rpbailey78: “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.” - John Lydgate Feeling this today.

6Polymath: "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.” Or so said the fifteenth-century monk and poet, John Lydgate.

TreasureofTrad: Empty vessels make the most sound. ~John Lydgate

CMRosens: We have books that could be for children being printed by William Caxton in 15thC. One was Sans Puer ad Mensam by John Lydgate (1476) and The Book of Curtesye (1477). . Table manners - teaching children the cultural norms around food. Caxton gave little gifts with his books.

ChrisitnaG: “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”.” ― John Lydgate

CatherineBadin: “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.” - John Lydgate, fifteenth-century monk and poet

Doctor_Bri: “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” or at least so a bloke called John Lydgate once said. Anyway, I think I'll have a cup of tea.

MarkHallock: Something I have to remind myself of regularly… “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 the people all of the time.” - Poet John Lydgate as made famous by Abraham Lincoln

ViolinMulcahy: 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 Source:

KerryJaneN1: According to another poet (John Lydgate) "... You can't please all the people all the time....". Don't be discouraged, maybe they just don't like poetry. :)

JulianSnowdon: The Oxford English Dictionary has the first use of 'cowering' at c. 1430 by John Lydgate, a writer to whom Rand obviously cannot be compared. (And should Mason be remembered 580 years hence, GHUA).

liggyw: Does the fear of criticism ever stop you from doing the things you really want to do? There are times when we simply need to trust the courage of our convictions and just go for it! As the poet John Lydgate wisely once said ... “You can please some of…

thekensingtong: The Troy Book is a Middle English poem by John Lydgate relating the history of Troy from its foundation through to the end of the Trojan War.

ChadECohen: “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.” -John Lydgate.

KarlSteel: Oh my god. JOHN LYDGATE amiright?

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