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Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court." (Jon to Alanna) -- Tamora Pierce
The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest. -- George Berkeley
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Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by. -- Robert Graves
I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions. -- Kevin Costner
The dance, like most dances after supper, was a merry one; some of the older folks joined in it, and the squire himself figured down several couple with a partner, with whom he affirmed he had danced at every Christmas for nearly half a century. -- Washington Irving
Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by Sir John Collings Squire: It did not last: the Devil shouting "Ho. Let Einstein be," restored the status quo] [Aaron Hill's version: O'er Nature's laws God cast the veil of night, Out blaz'd a Newton's soul and all was light. -- George Polya
We're multigenerational Squires. (Carl) Which means what? You prance around with tinfoil armor and plastic swords pretending to be knights? (Nick) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the chÃ¢teau, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory. -- Henry David Thoreau

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