Richard Taverner Professions : Translator Born : 1505 Died : July 14, 1575 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Richard Taverner Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne. Richard Taverner crooks nature science Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because they be windy and do engender impure humours and for that cause provoke bodily lust. Richard Taverner cooking food thinking Similar Authors Burton Watson translator Burton Raffel translator Ase-Marie Nesse translator Arthur Waley translator David Bellos translator Denys Johnson-Davies translator All Authors
