Medieval Birthday Quotes & Sayings

With a story, as with a well-chosen gift, we're happiest when surprised by something we didn't know we wanted. — David Mitchell

Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind ... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on the board. Once it begins, there shouldn't be any emotion involved whatsoever. — Julie Garwood

At one point, she said after a while, at one point we thought we might raise silkworms in one of the empty rooms. But then we never did. Oh, for the countless things one fails to do! — W.G. Sebald

We are free to choose the wrong thing. — Lauren Oliver

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. — Billy Sunday

High magic requires a great clarity of thought, you see, and women's talents do not lie in that direction. Their brains tend to overheat. — Terry Pratchett

It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says 'nucular' and 'misunderestimate' and talks with a probably fake Texas accent and so on, because then can come back with the big propaganda apparatus saying, 'See, those elite liberals who run the world and are sitting around drinking French wine and eating quiche don't understand us ordinary guys'; regular guys like the guy working on the assembly line and George Bush, who is going back to his ranch to cut brush. — Noam Chomsky

It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!! — Ricky Gervais

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. — Thomas Carlyle