Walter Map Quotes

Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.

If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.

Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on a boy, but the boyalways rose again afterwards.

The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.

Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.

The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.