Wisdom of Dead Worlds: Fabliaux
He cried in a fever, “Damn! By God’s blood and by God’s liver And by God’s guts and by God’s head, She’s been with our priest!” – The Fabliaux
He cried in a fever, “Damn! By God’s blood and by God’s liver And by God’s guts and by God’s head, She’s been with our priest!” – The Fabliaux
It is easy to be satisfied, while everything happens according to your desires. – Saga of the Volsungs
Whosever would become the friend of this world shall be accounted an enemy to God. – Gesta Romanorum
Nothing pampers arrogance more than success, or prompts to pride more surely than prosperity. – Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum
The Welsh go to extremes in all matters. You may never find anyone worse than a bad Welshman, but you will certainly never find anyone better than a good one. – Gerald of Wales, The […]
If man conceals, then God reveals; if man reveals, then God conceals. – St. Augustine
The careless shepherd feeds the wolf! – Garin, The Crane
“Of all the people I have seen the Welsh are the most particular in shaving the lower parts of the body.” […]
“. In fine, the things of earth would not mate with those of heaven, being sundered by a great original gulf through a difference in nature; inasmuch as mortal man was infinitely far from the glory of the divine majesty.” […]
“‘What will make him hate me?’ The sage replied, ‘If you are wise, you will know that a man does not do evil for no reason.'” […]
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