Hundred Years War/beginning of The War - 1337-1360

Famous quotes containing the words years, war and/or beginning:

    “Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    “Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!”
    —Georg Büchner (1813–1837)

    “The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)