Strange & Unusual Sayings
790 sayings found from the Medieval era
Gird yourselves, everyone of you, I say, and be valiant sons; for it is better for you to die in battle than to behold, the sorrows of your race and of your holy places. Let neither property nor the alluring charms of your wives entice you frol going…
But if you are hindered by love of children, parents, or of wife, remember what the Lord says in the Gospel, 'He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me', 'Every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father,…
But if you are hindered by love of children, parents, or of wife, remember what the Lord says in the Gospel, 'He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me', 'Every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father,…
Take care that none of them escapes.
Take care that none of them escapes.
I could not dispense with their society.
I could not dispense with their society.
I have taken England with both my hands.
I have taken England with both my hands.
I attacked the English of the Northern Shires like a lion. I ordered their houses and corn, with all their belongings, to be burnt without exception and large herds of cattle and beasts of burden to be destroyed wherever they were found. It was there…
I attacked the English of the Northern Shires like a lion. I ordered their houses and corn, with all their belongings, to be burnt without exception and large herds of cattle and beasts of burden to be destroyed wherever they were found. It was there…
And yet now he appeals to me on behalf of a war-mongering, thieving tyrant ravaging and pillaging my land both day and night! Get out, Master Traitor, false liar, deceitful agent of simony, and if I ever catch sight of you in street or field I swear …
And yet now he appeals to me on behalf of a war-mongering, thieving tyrant ravaging and pillaging my land both day and night! Get out, Master Traitor, false liar, deceitful agent of simony, and if I ever catch sight of you in street or field I swear …
Well, what do you think? Am I he?
Well, what do you think? Am I he?
Stick to your own grammar, my lord, for it is much better.
Stick to your own grammar, my lord, for it is much better.
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.
All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.