Spreuken over Man

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late

You, men of England, who have no right to this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven orders and notifies you through me, Joan the Maiden, to leave your fortresses and go back to your own country; or I will produce a clash of arms to be eternally remembered. And this is the third and last time I have written to you; I shall not write anything further.

Committee--a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men