Quotes About Provender

Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [Prayers and provender hinder no man's journey.]

Prayers and Provender hinder no Journey.

Le gaillard qui se perd en spéculation Est comme un animal qui tourne sur la lande En cercles infinis, poussé par le démon, Quand partout alentour croît la verte provende.

On the first day his pennant flew from the completed towers, he assembled the prisoners in the kitchen garden, and, mounting his gallows to address them, he released the men to go home, just as he had promised. Many elected to stay in his service, owing to the quality of the provender.

You shall mark Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave That, doting on his own obsequious bondage, Wears out his time, much like his master's ass, For nought but provender; and when he's old, cashier'd: Whip me such honest knaves.