Ed Greenwood Quotes

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.

...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.

Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.

Serce jest więcej warte, niźli całe złoto świata.

surprises seldom grow more welcome as one gets older.

Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.- Elminster of Shadowdale

Mind you do your dying right! Most of us only get one chance at it.

Great things befall when one is brave enough to do something bold, strange, and unusual.

Always face what you mislike, do battle with it, and get it done: all the more time then for what you prefer, yes?

Glory always has a price, and that cost is almost always paid in copiously spilled blood.

Memories are treasures,” he murmured. “Lock the best of them in your mind forever, the most splendid moments, and throw away the rest. Any day when you gain such a treasure is a day well-spent.

Cuando te ataquen con magia, corre, reza o arroja piedras; muchos magos no son más que un fraude, y puedes salir airoso aun cuando tu corazón tiemble. O bien puedes permanecer tranquilo y murmurar cualquier cosa mientras mueves fluidamente tus manos. Algunos practicantes del arte son tan cobardes que pueden salir huyendo ante esto. Y, en cuanto a los otros, al menos, cuando los hombres hablen de tu muerte días más tarde, dirán: "Nunca supe que fuese un mago; lo mantuvo en secreto todos estos años. Debe de haber sido un tipo inteligente". Desde luego, algunos no estarán de acuerdo con esto.

ADVENTURERS AVAUNT! There is no greater plague upon the lands than the chartered adventurer. Crown-sanctioned mischief makers, brigands whose thefts, casual murders, rapine and pillage are excused where the same things done by a cobbler or a milkmaid would be answered with severings of hands or other appendages, plus brandings—or all of those and hanging or death by drawing between four horses. Yet there is no more necessary plague. Adventurers make even kings think twice about cruelly oppressing all who pass within reach, teach prudence to high priests and even rogue wizards, and are almost the only curb upon the numbers of dragons and other large and monstrous beasts. On the whole, I think the balance comes out about even. What makes us keep adventuring charters instead of burning them along with their bearers is the entertainment adventurers afford the populace. In hamlets and at waymoots, after one’s grumbled about the weather, taxes, the latest rumors of war and orc raids, and the all-too-paltry gossip about the indiscretions of royalty and nobility, there’s little else to talk about but the foolish escapades of adventurers. Thundaerlel Maurlatrimm Four Decades of Innkeeping published in the Year of the Highmantle

Yet as I get older—and my Art fades—I find myself increasingly irked by the small matters, the minor annoyances that once I laughed off or brushed aside.

He’d not always be just a shepherd. Someday he’d go to Sembia’s docks and meet with adventure, Brann promised himself … not for the first time. He sighed at that thought, shook his head with a wry smile, and glanced about at the sheep again.

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love and the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence. - Gaston Berger

Then his mouth fell open. A dwarf—a real dwarf, with an axe and a beard and a mail shirt, and all!

Precious little. Most of the strife I foresee will be on the Sword Coast and its backlands.

Evil rules, and good men must needs be outlaws—or corpses—if they’re to stay good. So

Shandril stood, furious and heartsick, and lashed out with spellfire. “Wherever I go! Always beset, always friends and companions hurt! You seek spellfire? Well, then—have it!

Tallus stood at his chamber window, looking down as Jinnaoth disappeared in the dark of Pharra’s Alley. He ground the base of his gnarled staff into the floor angrily, drumming his fingertips on the windowsill and contemplating the winding, well-lit streets of Sea Ward from the heights of the House of Wonder.

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Tluin,” he whispered, into the gloom around him. “Naed, hrast, and farruking tluin.

pereunt et imputantur mors ianua vitae

The savagery of a young cynic never rests

I SUPPOSE YOU LOVEDHIM TOO, THIS BRAWNY WARRIOR? NO, but Mystra did. AND? And nothing. He died. HAH! HER TIME AND ATTENTION WASTED! Not so. She does not regard humans as tools, to be measured by their usefulness to her ends of the moment, but rather as flowers to be nurtured in a garden. Each passing year holds a better display, and affords grander possibilities.

Then, of course, we could choose to stay only within the reach of those rulers we favor—and I can’t conceive of the chaos and overburdened troops and officials that would be found in any realm in which folk could choose their rulers. Thankfully, I can’t believe that any people would ever be crazed enough to do that. Not in this world, anyway.

Still, the first duty of a knight is to make the realm shine in the dreams of small boys—or where else will the knights of tomorrow arise, and what will become of the realm?

Amaranthae turned her head to look at the old mage, white to the lips. “Do you elders know everything?” “Enough to keep ourselves entertained,” the Srinshee said dryly, and Uldreiyn Starym nodded. “ ‘Tis a common mistake of the young and vigorous,” he calmly told the tabletop, “to believe their elders have forgotten to see, or think, or remember things— when what we’ve really forgotten to do is scare younglings into respecting us, thoroughly and often.

Still, the first duty of a knight is to make the realm shine in the dreams of small boys — or where else will the knights of tomorrow arise, and what will become of the realm?

Securing publication of Saints, Slaves, and Blacks proved most challenging. Five different presses rejected the manuscript. Ultimately, Greenwood Press—a small academic press based in Westport Connecticut—accepted it. Once in print, the volume garnered minimal exposure due in part to limited promotion. Outrageously overpriced, the book’s primary market was university and public libraries. When its limited print run sold out, the volume went out of print—this occurring a mere five years following publication. Reissue of Saints, Slaves, and Blacks in a relatively inexpensive paperback edition is intended to make it available to a wider audience. Such a reprint is also timely in that 2018 marks the fortieth anniversary of the lifting of the priesthood and temple ban. The volume deserves republication for an even more important reason. When first published, Saints, Slaves, and Blacks provided a unique, albeit controversial, perspective relative to the origins of black priesthood denial. Its central thesis that the ban emerged largely as the byproduct of Mormon ethnic whiteness initially articulated in the Book of Mormon and Pearl of Great Price was provocative. Building on these scriptural proof-texts, nineteenth century Latter-day Saints viewed themselves as a divinely “chosen” lineage—the literal descendants of the House of Israel. They considered their “whiteness” emblematic, indeed proof, of their status as the Lord’s “favored people.” Conversely, Mormons utilized these same scriptures, along with the Old Testament, to prove that black people were members of a divinely cursed race, given their alleged descent from two accursed Biblical counter-figures—Ham, the misbehaving son of Noah, and Cain, humankind’s alleged first murderer. Physical proof of African-American accursed status was

The bed that awaited him was of his own building. And its name was “adventure.

Arousing him, all gods blast it, despite his anger and worry. Arclath shook his head, managing to free his mouth from hers at last. “Dragon take all!” he gasped. “Will