There is no such thing as a great man or a great woman. People believe in them, just as they used to believe in unicorns and dragons. The greatest man or woman is ninety-nine per cent just like yourself. – George Bernard Shaw, 1932

No one can vouch for the origins of the medieval proverb, “No true virgin plays leapfrog with a unicorn in the forest on a spring night.” – Muriel Segal, Virgins Reluctant, Dubious & Avowed, 1977

Always be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn, then always be a unicorn. – Elle Lothlorien [Post-publication paraphrase. Original: “I was told to just be m

The unicorn stands alone, still as frost. It keeps watch down the corridors of time. The past and the future meet in the presence of the unicorn; the darkness and light become one. Patient as a candle flame, inviolate, here is our guardian, keeper of the silent unknown. – Josephine Bradley, c.1980