"My introduction to castles occurred as a schoolboy, visiting Edward I’s castles in North Wales over several summers in the early 1960s: it was a favoured holiday area of my parents."

"In the 1990s and early 2000s we have heard a lot about so-called revisionism especially with reference to the promotion up the agenda of the display and status aspects of fortification as well as the importance of settlement and landscape context. Without any doubt at all this increased emphasis has enriched the subject enormously. But it has led, I think, to two problems. First, in the minds of some writers … it has led to an assumption that political and military motives for castle-building can safely be demoted. This is surely an error. What we have done is to have enlarged the repertoire of castle-building motives, not substituted some new repertoire items for old ones. Second, in the minds of some writers there seems to be an assumption that everything written up to the 1980s was the product of an “early” mind-set whereas everything written later has been the product of a “modern” mindset. This, too, is an error. A reading of early castle “classics” from around 1900 reveals their authors knew how important castles were to the builders’ self-image and how important they could be as centres of rural estates."

"Amnem (Ampnem) parvorum facit unda (vnda) freqvens (frequens) fluviorum."

"Qui bien chace bien trueve."

"Il faut se garder du devant d'une femme , du derrière d'une mulle , et d'un moine de tous costez."

"Tant cum le jeu est bel l’em le deit lesser."

"Cheval bon et trotier d ' esperon n'a mestier."

"Fol semble sage quand il se tait."

"Vient jour , vient conseil."

"Gn yo pau de différeinche d ein homme d esprit qui ne palle pau avec ein sot qui ne dit rien."

"Ch til qui cache y treuve."

"A tart manjue qui à autrui escuele s atent ."

"Après la pluye, le biau tans."

"Wann ' t oppen Pastor riänt, drippelt et oppen Köster."

"Wa de hynst krie wol, dy smyt him næ mey."

"Bat en guet Hake sin well, maut sik bi der Tit krümmen."

"Men kann der Oës wal tör Drenk lëe, mar töin Suupe kann öm net twenge."

"De Appel fällt nit wiet vamme, Stamme, et en si, dann, dat de Bom schef am Auwer stet."

"Dröteen Handwärker, vetteen Onjlöcker."

"Leef Kenger hant völl Names."

"Den Buck mälken un inner Heie fisken bringet Nix in."

"Laiwe Kinner kritt viel Namen."

"Op Nåbers Felle es guet Raüwen liäsen."

"Wenn et op der Heer reent, dan dröpt et op der Kneht."

"No Religion With A Universal Message... Under One Flag Can Even Momentarily Entertain The Idea Of Employing Force To Spread Its Message. Swords Can Win Territories, But Not Hearts. Force Can Bend Heads, But Not Minds."

"When the love of God enters one's psyche, it is as if God becomes that persons ears to listen from, eyes to see with, hand to hold things with and feet to walk with, it is then that no remnant of wickedness is left in that person."

"Drözeng Handwerker, vezeng Onglöcker."

"Un bon nadairë à la fi së nêgo."

"If you love the art, you must love the artist. If you love the Creation, you must love the Creator."

"Leiv Kenger hant völ Name."

"Lou pâirë a fa las amassadoũiros é lou fil las ëscampadoûiros."

"Që vêi crëma la pôrto dë soun vëzi dêou pôou për la sîouno."

"N'ës pa tan picho bollissou q'uno fës d'âou jhour noun fâgo d ' oùmbro."

"Si ley desirs vezien la fin, jamay degun mesquin."

"Un bouen nédayre es à la fin negat."

"Pichoto ribiệiro fâi lous grans gours."

"Që të fâi, fâi li; që të ghîgno, ghîgno-li."

"Daumen que la meizon de ton vezin se brulo, la tiou n'es pas seguro."

"Pron de brondillos fan un fays"

"Vesti na sömia aca de sida, La sarà semper na sömia vestida."

"Ü sold sparegnat l è ü sold guadegnat."

"Apres la pluejo ven lou beou tens."

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