Walter Map famous quotes

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

#Death #Drinking #Alcohol

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.
-- Walter Map

#Pigs #Feet #Numbers

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

#Hate #Degenerates #Persistent

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

#Healing #Hands #Surgeons

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.
-- Walter Map

#Boys #Rose #Monk

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

#Faults #Alive #I Am Alive

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

It had been three weeks, four days and twelve hours since I'd seen her. Since she'd torn my heart out. If I had been drinking, I'd blame it on the alcohol. It had to be an illusion, a desperate one. But I hadn't been drinking. Not a drop. There was no mistaking Blaire. It was her. She was actually here. Blaire was back in Rosemary. She was at my house.

All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.

When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

Tonight I'm the designated drinker.

And then you have the responsibility and the duty of being good examples to youngsters, not smoke, training hard, go to bed early, don't drink alcohol, don't take drugs, it's very important to have a policy for educating against doping.