Classic Medieval Quotes & Sayings

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. — John Major

The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website. — Nick Bostrom

You can take what life gives you or you can take what you want from life. Your choice. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I love Thieves, it is therapeutic, if you're not feeling well. It has a very strong scent but is quite wonderful. I also use lavender. Peppermint, when my stomach is upset. — Donna Karan

"Pop" was a dirty word for a really long time and it feels like that's not the case anymore. — Lizzy Plapinger

That's why you call it a budget. You set it and you don't budge. — Jennifer Morrison

It was first love. Nothing else is quite like that," I said. "Do you know what I mean? — Leigh James

You can't change the feeling
but you can change your feelings about the feeling in a second or two — David Berman

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself. — Jaron Lanier

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it. — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

A growl came from the back of my throat. I looked like shit. I felt like shit. I wasn't ready to deal with her shit. — Tijan

Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy. — Susan Glaspell

We all need a space to just let things be, a place to remember who we are and what is important to us, an interval of time that allows the happiness and joy of living back into our consciousness. — Nina Sankovitch

It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded overcoat. Objects of this kind played a queer part in his secret life-illusion. His stick was like a plough-handle, a ship's runner, a gun, a spade, a sword, a spear. His threadbare overcoat was like a medieval jerkin, like a monk's habit, like a classic toga! It gave him a primeval delight merely to move one foot in front of the other, merely to prod the ground with his stick, merely to feel the flapping of his coat about his knees, when this mood predominated. It always associated itself with his consciousness of the historic continuity
so incredibly charged with marvels of dreamy fancy
of human beings moving to and fro across the earth. It associated itself, too, with his deep, obstinate quarrel with modern inventions, with modern machinery ... — John Cowper Powys

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. — Benjamin Disraeli

When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals. — George Bernard Shaw