If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn. Walter Map More Quotes by Walter Map More Quotes From Walter Map The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love. Walter Map degenerates persistent hate Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing. Walter Map surgeons healing hands Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on a boy, but the boyalways rose again afterwards. Walter Map monk rose boys Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive. Walter Map i-am-alive faults alive The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows. Walter Map feet numbers pigs