
Book II
Exilius http://www.pierre-marteau.com/editions/1715-exilius.html (1715)
To Thomas Hume.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Book II
Exilius http://www.pierre-marteau.com/editions/1715-exilius.html (1715)
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year, st. 10.
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 43.
Context: Being come down from thence towards Seville, they were heard by Gargantua, who said then unto those that were with him, Comrades and fellow-soldiers, we have here met with an encounter, and they are ten times in number more than we. Shall we charge them or no? What a devil, said the monk, shall we do else? Do you esteem men by their number rather than by their valour and prowess? With this he cried out, Charge, devils, charge! Which when the enemies heard, they thought certainly that they had been very devils, and therefore even then began all of them to run away as hard as they could drive, Drawforth only excepted, who immediately settled his lance on its rest, and therewith hit the monk with all his force on the very middle of his breast, but, coming against his horrific frock, the point of the iron being with the blow either broke off or blunted, it was in matter of execution as if you had struck against an anvil with a little wax-candle.
Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 448.
63 Pelopidas
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders
The Grave of Bonaparte, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) (incorrectly attributed as "Leonard" Heath).
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 5.
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I