Wet Nurse History Quotes & Sayings

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. — Thomas Fuller

His Majesty doesn't even visit the privy except on the advice of the Privy Council. — Dave Duncan

I cannot think of those years without horror, loathing and heartache. I killed men in war and challenged men to duels in order to kill them. I lost at cards, consumed the labour of the peasants, sentenced them to punishments, lived loosely, and deceived people. Lying, robbery, adultery of all kinds, drunkenness, violence, murder
there was no crime I did not commit, and in spite of that people praised my conduct and my contemporaries considered and consider me to be a comparatively moral man.
So I lived for ten years.
During that time I began to write from vanity, covetousness, and pride. In my writings I did the same as in my life. to get fame and money, for the sake of which I wrote, it was necessary to hide the good and to display the evil. and I did so. How often in my writings I contrived to hide under the guise of indifference, or even of banter, those strivings of mine towards goodness which gave meaning to my life! And I succeeded in this and was praised. — Leo Tolstoy

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

Zen is the complete absence of belief. Zen is the complete lack of authority. — Brad Warner

Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position. — Sparky Anderson

If he didn't want his opinion,why did he ask for it? — Jerome K. Jerome

Perhaps the Queen's prayers, and those of Bernard, had been efficacious, or perhaps Louise had been more attentive in bed, for during 1145
the exact date is not recorded
she bore a daughter, who was named Marie in honour of the Virgin. If the infant was not the male heir to France so desired by the King
the Salic law forbade the succession of females to the throne
her arrival encouraged the royal parents to hope for a son in the future.
Relationships between aristocratic parents and children were rarely close. Queens and noblewomen did not nurse their own babies, but handed them over at birth into the care of wet nurses, leaving themselves free to become pregnant again. — Alison Weir

Angels are visible to those who accept the light and break the pact made with darkness. — Paulo Coelho

It is better to be the cause of an effect rather than be the effect that was caused. — Richard Machowicz

Knowledge is true opinion. — Plato

Playboy and I have had some talks about doing it and in what manner it would be done. Aaron Spelling did not pay me money not to do it - that's completely false. — Shannen Doherty

Less racist now but it has been. I don't think it's been completely stamped out. There's a class element to it. And who's supposed to do what. You're very unlikely to get a gay grip. — Colin Firth

I like to celebrate my life. I have a life that I'm really lucky to have, and so I want to make sure every minute counts and that I go on great vacations and I share my memories with people that I love and that will make me laugh and lalalalalala. — Chelsea Handler

Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium. — Stewart O'Nan