Quotes About Medieval War

#1. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

John Fowles

#2. Sometimes coaches can teach you new information, new strategies and skills;

Anthony Robbins

#3. The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.

Barbara Tuchman

#4. There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.

Jeff Lynne

#5. Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the apes, so morality separates civilisation from the barbarians.

Eric Corley

#7. Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture.

Arne Glimcher

#8. He doth nothing but talk of his horses.

William Shakespeare

#9. ...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with its neighbors, and every farmer claims he is a king.

David Willis McCullough

#10. I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has become far too much a stagnant one, in which opinions rather than experience and reason are appealed to.

William Stanley Jevons

#11. It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered to attack a medieval fortress using no weapons that would destroy or harm it.

Dale Dye

#12. Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

Alton Brown

#13. A man can die but once.

William Shakespeare

#14. I looked up and beyond him again, focusing in on the horror that swords, arrows, clubs, and staffs left behind on human flesh. The open wounds. The blood, The brokenness. The inglorious remains of war.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#15. It's all matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to But it's pretty much the same anywhere you go, you can manage.

Haruki Murakami

#16. Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others.

Pascal Bruckner

#17. In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

Umberto Eco

#18. All of her aunts said that Bridget looked exactly like her mother as a teenager. Staring at her, Bridget realised she had no memories of her mother being thin.

Siobhan Vivian

#19. It is still a fact that our common frontier grows stronger every year, defended only by friendship.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#20. The only people who hate escapism are jailers.

C.S. Lewis

#21. As president I would actually name the enemy, radical Islamic terrorists. We've got a president [ Barack Obama] who wants to apologize for America and wants to criticize medieval Christian and wants to wage war on junk food. He won't even say the words "radical Islamic terrorists."

Bobby Jindal