Don Quixote Chivalry Quotes & Sayings

Sir Walter Scott created rank & caste in the South and also reverence for and pride and pleasure in them. Life on the Mississippi
Don Quixote swept admiration for medieval chivalry-silliness out of existence. Ivanhoe restored it. Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi — Mark Twain

People are always ruining things for you. — J.D. Salinger

Table 29.1. "AA" (Avoid/Acquire) of Fighting Cancer. In closing, let me also share my new found philosophy of life: A good life is summarized in three "H's." They are, in order of importance: Happiness, Health, and . . . hmm, I forget the third one!!! Good luck in your fight and remember to stay Happy and Positive. After all, the reason it is said "you can't buy happiness" is that because it is free! — Donald I. Abrams

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own. — Annie Lennox

You live in a society that is shaped in every possible way by the Bible. The language you use, the laws you obey (and disobey), the founding principles of your nation, the disputes about abortion, homosexuality, adultery - these and so much else in your world are rooted in the Bible. You don't have to read it for its truth value. You should read it to understand how your world got the way it is, the way you would read the constitution or Shakespeare. — David Plotz

After living on the edge, the adrenalin, some people in the military get addicted. Anything else seem boring. They have to have the excitement. — Timothy McVeigh

Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's a heavy mist before my eyes. — James Stewart

The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

He didn't want me to get hurt? Wow. Just wow. I might actually be close to a swoon here — Jessica Verday

What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations. — Mary Antin

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India. — Shaffi Mather

Sometimes you can just feel a person's decency in the same way that
sometimes you can intuit a lack of it. Phil had the air of a man who is fully attentively engaged Josh Hannah's first fiance had the air of a man trying not to look at his watch. Phil consistently interested himself in the lives of others Josh talked about himself. Phil looked at my sister with tenderness and humor Josh looked at her
as if she were an especially persistent gnat. — Rhoda Janzen

All of that is true,' responded Don Quixote, 'but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry is a religion, and there are sainted knights in Glory.'

Yes,' responded Sancho, 'but I've heard that there are more friars in heaven than knights errant.'

That is true,' responded Don Quixote, 'because the number of religious is greater than the number of knights.'

There are many who are errant,' said Sancho.

Many,' responded Don Quixote, 'but few who deserve to be called knights. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between. — Joan Jett

I love you like a couch potato loves his remote. - Brody Madden — Kate McCarthy

The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given by the natural structure or by the natural behaviour of our hearing, as used to be generally maintained hitherto. — Hermann Von Helmholtz