Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you.
Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
They who lose today may win tomorrow.
For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.
But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
Jests that give pains are no jests.