The Age of Chivalry Quotes

“The reader will, we apprehend, by this time have had enough of absurdities.”
― Thomas Bulfinch, The Age of Fable: Or, Beauties of Mythology

“Never did man make worse use of his wits than thou hast done.”
― Thomas Bulfinch, The Age of Chivalry

“...In the reign of Cecrops, the first king of Athens, the two deities contended for the possession of the city. The gods decreed that it should be awarded to that one who produced the gift most useful to mortals. Neptune gave the horse; Minerva produced the olive. The gods gave judgment that the olive was the more useful of the two, and awarded the city to the goddess.”
― Thomas Bulfinch, The Age of Fable: Or, Beauties of Mythology