The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads.

There is something sinister about putting a leprechaun in a workhouse. The only solid comfort is that he certainly will not work.

I mean to take a good look at any man ere I leap into his arms.'
Then look your fill, and leap away.

No offense, Jaron, but I don't want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful it can be."
"Did anyone try to kill you while I was gone?"
"No."
"Then you didn't even get a taste.

Even historians, who should know better, still seem addicted to the idea that nothing of any consequence occurred between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance.

You have to have a sense of humor. Countering a novel and a movie is a little bit like fighting against smoke. If you swing at it with boxing gloves, you wind up looking a little silly.