Quotes About Heraldry

#1. "We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."

Abraham Cowley

#2. It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

Hosea Ballou

#3. No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

Samuel Johnson

#4. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave
Awaits alike the inevitable hour:
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Thomas Gray

#5. Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.

Charles Burnett

#6. Heraldry has been contemptuously termed 'the science of fools with long memories.'

James Planche

#7. Heraldry: Sources, symbols, and meaning

Ottfried Neubecker

#8. The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in their own limited sphere than the gifted.

Thomas Hartwell Horne

#10. Down, boy! Couchant! I said couchant! No! Not rampant!

Terry Pratchett

#11. I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

David Bailey

#12. The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth.

David Icke

#13. The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive.

Jodi Picoult

#14. Those very same metadata are contained in millions of photographs posted to sale and auction sites such as Craigslist and eBay. For example, a photograph of a diamond ring or an iPad posted on Craigslist might have embedded with it the precise location of your home where the photograph was taken.

Marc Goodman

#15. Living safe behind a wall, never tasting life at all.

Jerry Jeff Walker

#16. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

Rooney Mara

#17. The townspeople took the prince for dead
When he never returned with the dragon's head
When with her, he stayed
She thought he'd be too afraid
But he loved her too much instead.

Jess C. Scott

#18. I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

Alice Walker

#19. They set great store by their gardens ... Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention ... concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.

Thomas More

#20. Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.

Henry Lindlahr

#21. Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

Victor J. Stenger

#22. The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.

Arthur Helps