“There have always been men who found it easier to speak vows than to keep them.”

“Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.”

“One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.”

“I have been despised by better men than you.”

“The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.”

“Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.”

“I vow that you shall always have a place by my hearth and meat and mead at my table, and pledge to ask no service of you that might bring you into dishonor. I swear it by the old gods and the new. Arise.”