"His masked smile, his false grandeur, will serve the gods their anger stir. "

"Three times shall lovely sunny France be led to play a bloody dance. "

"Irlmaier reportedly said he would die when the chapel built around the Madonna image was completed. "

"According to his wife, Countess Lena Hamon, Cheiro foretold his own death - to the hour - the day before he died. "

"The seas, like thieves, will enter cities, into houses; earthquakes will become more frequent, and lands and waters will open. "

"The poet Catulle Mendès faces a tragic end (prediction attributed to Madame de Thèbes). "

"Reading Mark Twain's hand, Cheiro reportedly foretold that he would become a famous writer and that his real name began with the letter 'S' (Samuel Clemens). "

"In Serbia it will not be possible to distinguish a man from a woman. Everybody will dress the same. A groom will take a bride, but nobody will know who is who. "

"Wise men will appear in the Orient and their wisdom will cross all seas and frontiers, but people will not trust this wisdom for a long time, and this real truth they will proclaim a lie. "

"When that happens, people will be so sorry that they didn't discover it before, because this knowledge was so simple. "

"Those who will read and write different books with numbers will think that they know the most. These learned men will let their lives be led by calculations and numbers. "

"A dun, hornless cow will appear in the Minch (off Carr Point, in Gairloch), and make a 'geum,' or bellow, which will knock the six chimneys off Gairloch House. "

"When two false teachers shall come across the seas who will revolutionize the religion of the land, and nine bridges shall span the river Ness, the Highlands will be overrun by ministers without grace and women without shame. "

"The day will come when the ravens will drink their full of the Mackenzies' blood three times off the top of the 'Clach Mhor'; the battle will be started by a squint-eyed, pock-pitted tailor, and seven women shall strive for his hand. "

"The world upside down shall be, and gold be found at the root of a tree. "

"Water shall come over Ouse Bridge, and a windmill shall be set upon a Tower, and an Elm Tree shall lie at every man's door. "

"Before Ouse Bridge and Trinity Church meet, what is built in the day shall fall in the night. "

""Vir religiosus" ("Religious man") — the 99th motto, assigned to Pius VIII (1829–1830). "

""Fides intrepida" ("Intrepid faith") — the 104th motto, assigned to Pius XI (1922–1939). "

"The mottoes for popes just before 1590 fit unusually precisely — e.g. those keyed to the coats of arms and birthplaces of Sixtus V and his immediate predecessors in the later 16th century. "