WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:32:52 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Suleiman the Magnificient – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Suleiman the Magnificient -- Poem https://wist.info/suleiman-the-magnificient/22615/ https://wist.info/suleiman-the-magnificient/22615/#respond Tue, 08 Oct 2013 22:10:06 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=22615 Take her lips in your mouth:
Be a man, kiss her, heart and soul.
No sugar is as sweet as she,
Only wine is delicious like her.


Suleiman I, the Magnificent (1494-1566) Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1520-1566) [also Süleyman, Muhibbi]
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