Quotes about Kings

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause. Votes: 4

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. Votes: 4

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. Votes: 4

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep. Votes: 4

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? Votes: 4

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. Votes: 4

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. Votes: 4

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. Votes: 4

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. Votes: 4

The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.' Votes: 4

Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too. Votes: 4

It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being 'greedy' by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings. Votes: 4

The Last Argument of Kings. Votes: 3

Grammar, which can govern even Kings. Votes: 3

Kings fear change. Leaders crave it. Votes: 3

Kings are the slaves of history. Votes: 3

Kings can only use their best tools. Votes: 3

Kings that made laws, first broke 'em ... Votes: 3

Kings are falling like leaves this autumn. Votes: 3

Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent Votes: 3

Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off. Votes: 3

The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong. Votes: 3

Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings. Votes: 3

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear. Votes: 3

Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies. Votes: 3

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians. Votes: 3

Being with the Dap-Kings is like being an athlete. Votes: 3

Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it. Votes: 3

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings. Votes: 3

The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred. Votes: 3

Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge? Votes: 3

Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority. Votes: 3

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. Votes: 3

Bees are a good omen to Kings, for they signify an obsequious people. Votes: 3

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. Votes: 3

Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever. Votes: 3

Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn. Votes: 3

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19). Votes: 3

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings. Votes: 3

There really is no cost, only the privilege of serving the King of Kings. Votes: 3

Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them. Votes: 3

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings. Votes: 3

Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach. Votes: 3

Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood Votes: 3

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise. Votes: 3

Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. Votes: 3

Kings also sleep; but the clever ones, with one eye open, just like dolphins and whales Votes: 3

The world is full of Kings and Queens, Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams. Votes: 3

Kings kill; clowns don't; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings! Votes: 3

Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own. Votes: 3

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate. Votes: 3

As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive. Votes: 3

Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. Votes: 3

My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon. Votes: 3

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! Votes: 3

People say you can abuse marijuana. You can abuse cheeseburgers. Does that mean we should close Burger Kings. Votes: 3

I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries. Votes: 3

We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. Votes: 3

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. Votes: 3

Ave Dolce Vita, Rex Regum! Hail Sweet Life, King of Kings! We love you and we believe in you! Votes: 3

Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.' Votes: 3

I blast "Northern Sky," by the Capital Kings, on the way there, but at the gym, I totally zone out. Votes: 3

Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings. Votes: 3

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England. Votes: 3

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others. Votes: 3

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs. Votes: 3

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. Votes: 3

If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it. Votes: 3

Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home Votes: 3

To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things, Votes: 3

Kings need the world, but the world does not need the kings! Let them disappear like the horrible ghosts of the nightmares! Votes: 3

The Dodgers. My favorite hockey team is the Kings. I like the Clippers in basketball. And I like USC college. Football, the Giants. Votes: 3

Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell. Votes: 3

Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.] Votes: 3

Chennai Super Kings will win the IPL. MS Dhoni's Clever Captaincy is the reason behind Chennai Super Kings’ success in #‎ IPL ! Votes: 3

I'm very much into the Gypsy Kings. It's rumba and very festive, very passionate music, rhythmic guitar, passionate singing about love from happy people. Votes: 3

And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. Votes: 3

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object Votes: 3

David Stern might be the smartest executive in the history of professional sports. His obsession with the Vagrant Kings is one of the strangest stories. Votes: 3

Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave. Votes: 3

Kings don't beg, they decree. They have only one destiny and that's to reign. God has made you king. Reign and rule, refuse to beg! Votes: 3

When the clouds over the land rise like a mountain, a long with it's wishes, it can never cover the errors and mistakes made by Kings. Votes: 3

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser. Votes: 3

Kings and queens might do wicked things, but they don't nag. One thing I like about Bloody Mary: she never said a word about lung cancer. Votes: 3

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do. Votes: 3

When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player. Votes: 3

All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains... Votes: 3

Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius. Votes: 3

Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest somehow found it [2 Kings 22:8]. Votes: 3

Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal. Votes: 3

I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven to be drinking it through time eternal. Votes: 3

Most of us are lucky not to be Kings and Heroes, because we do not have to make the choices that Kings and Heroes have to make. Votes: 3

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it. Votes: 3

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed. Votes: 3

Kings are chosen by the Source, so it is said ... Therefore those who fight for the king can be said to be godly. Is that not cause enough? Votes: 3

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate. Votes: 3

I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates. Votes: 3

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men. Votes: 3

When life is tough or even unbearable and we want to give up, God will send us a partner to help us make the journey - 1 Kings 19 & Luke 1:39 - 56 Votes: 3

I've worked on really big budget movies as a designer - 'Vanilla Sky,' 'Three Kings;' I've been in that world, and you can just see people get nervous. Votes: 3

Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings / Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings / When ordinary people who are like you and me / Are the builders of their destiny. Votes: 3

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat. Votes: 3

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves. Votes: 3

Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie. Votes: 3

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value. Votes: 3

To see Good Tennis! What divine joy Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ? Let other people play at other things; The King of Games is still the Game of Kings. Votes: 3

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director. Votes: 3

Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted to be liked, not feared; admired, not loathed. Votes: 3

I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much. Votes: 3

I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings. Votes: 3

If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis." --- Jaqen H'ghar, A Clash of Kings Votes: 3

Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of Kings. Votes: 3

The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds. Votes: 3

I put myself on the same level as everyone else around me - from the directrice to the workman, everyone. Except my pets - they are the Kings; you must treat them like royalty. Votes: 3

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me. Votes: 3

Some men look great unshaven; others just look like they forgot to shave. Beards and mustaches can be really distinctive if you go for an earthy, rock-and-roll look like the Kings of Leon or the Killers. Votes: 3

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings. Votes: 3

Stuart Clark's The Sun Kings is undoubtedly the most gripping and brilliant popular-science history account that I have ever read. It is informative, accurate, and relevant. Clark's ability to write so vividly makes me seethe with jealousy. Votes: 3

He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing. Votes: 3

Weese," she would whisper, first of all. "Dunsen, Chiswyck, Polliver, Raff the Sweetling. The Tickler and the Hound. Ser Gregor, Ser Armory, Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, King Joffrey, Queen Cersei." - Arya Stark, A Clash of Kings Votes: 3

Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments or seals; but come from the King of Kings and the Lord of all the earth. Votes: 3

And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended. Votes: 3

Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. This was the original game of thrones. If you like 'A Song of Ice and Fire', you will love 'The Accursed Kings'. Votes: 3

None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob. Votes: 3

You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often upon them, and you will see their increasing glory, like that increasing cloud (1 Kings 18:44). Votes: 3

I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all. Votes: 3

I wanted to make a film that wouldn't just appeal to Formula One fans. That's what the great sports documentaries do - 'Hoop Dreams,' 'When We Were Kings' - they're human dramas first, sport second, if at all. Votes: 3

We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by the other lesson that Religion Flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. Votes: 3

We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now prosper, and now perish. But still, through all, we are the same; for this is the marvel of Identity. Votes: 3

It's raining in Washington tonight. Plump, warm summer rain that covers the sidewalks with leopard spots. Downtown, elderly ladies carry their houseplants out to set them on the fire-escapes, as if they were infirm relatives or Boy Kings. I like that. Votes: 3

O Cyrus , great King, King of Kings, Achaemenian King, King of the land of Iran. I, the Shahanshah of Iran, offer thee salutations from myself and from my nation. Rest in peace, for we are awake, and we will always stay awake. Votes: 3

I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey. Votes: 3

I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey Votes: 3

Well, I might take a plane, I might take a train. How do you people live here? You must be insane. I'm leaving Sacramento. Sacramento, I won't stay. But I'll be sure to come back when the Lakers beat the Kings in May. Votes: 3

Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did 'Kings and Queen', had this curious idea to think that I could be an actor, but I had never acted before, and I was supposed to direct my own film! Votes: 3

Nowadays I'm more interested in what you'd call 'alternative.' Lately we've been listening to a lot of Mumford & Sons, and Jenny Owen Youngs. I'm also pretty crazy about the Kings of Convenience, a Norwegian band that's been compared to Simon and Garfunkel. Votes: 3

A Bible not read is like a bulb not lighted. Only insane people will love to work in the darkness with Kings' bulbs which are not switched on! ... and so goes the one who has the King James' but does not search into it! Votes: 3

The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken. The Kings of Tarshish shall bring gifts. Votes: 3

What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies. Oh, see the air is shaken with white and heavenly wings-- This is the Lord of all the earth, this is the King of Kings. Votes: 3

Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor. Votes: 3

We have in effect renounced our Worldly citizenship when we receive the King of Kings and the Prince of Peace, Lord of Lords, God of Heaven, Son of Righteousness and the Kingdom of Heaven into our hearts, and have made the Heavenly City our Home! Votes: 3

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity. Votes: 3

I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street. Votes: 3

The stone is strong. Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought. I'm not dead either. Votes: 3

The people have a right supreme To make their kings, for Kings are made for them. All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust, Which when resum'd, can be no longer just. Successionm for the general good design'd, In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind. Votes: 3

As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all. Votes: 3

Perhaps this was what Queens did. Perhaps they held their Kings in the darkness, deep within their castles and allowed them that moment of weakness they could never show to anyone else. Perhaps they gave strength to their Kings, because everyone else only took it from them. Votes: 3

The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings. Votes: 3

But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world. Votes: 3

Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that they would not seek where they are the second to be the first, and where the third to be the second and so forth. Votes: 3

Several of them were discussing this in low tones as they waited for Halt to arrive - until they realized that he was already among them. They weren't used to this. Kings were supposed to sweep into a room majestically - not suddenly appear without anyone seeing their arrival. Votes: 3

If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.” “The Codes?” “No. The Way of Kings.” “That storming book. Votes: 3

My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery. Votes: 3

Princes & KingsIsn't it strange how princes and kings,and clowns that caper in sawdust rings,and common people, like you and me,are builders for eternity?Each is given a list of rules;a shapeless mass; a bag of tools.And each must fashion, ere life is flown,A stumbling block, or a Stepping-Stone. Votes: 3

Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.' Votes: 3

Punctuality is the politeness of kings. Votes: 2

When you strike at a king, you must kill him. Votes: 2

He that can work is born to be king of something. Votes: 2

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king. Votes: 2

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. Votes: 2

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing! Votes: 2

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. Votes: 2

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. Votes: 2

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. Votes: 2

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed. Votes: 2

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. Votes: 2

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings. Votes: 2

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. Votes: 2

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. Votes: 2

I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me. Votes: 2

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings. Votes: 2

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled. Votes: 2

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech. Votes: 2

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. Votes: 2

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised. Votes: 2

For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed. Votes: 2

The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods. Votes: 2

The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people. Votes: 2

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings. Votes: 2

There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers Votes: 2

I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are. Votes: 2

I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level. Votes: 2

This kitchen is completely calm. Some of the old-fashioned chefs - they become kings in their kitchen, they've got to be called chef. But I don't care if someone calls me chef or Heston, it really doesn't bother me. Votes: 2

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad. Votes: 2

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. Votes: 2

Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings. Votes: 2

Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on. Votes: 2

Children and teenagers don't easily relate to stories about kings and dukes, and to tell only stories about kings and dukes is to ignore the regular people. Votes: 1

Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals. Votes: 1

I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be. Votes: 1

As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there. Votes: 1

Obviously I've had this fascination with aristocracy my whole life. Like, the kings and queens of 500 years ago... they're like rock stars. If there was a 'TMZ' 500 years ago, it would be about, like, Henry VIII and Marie Antoinette and all those people. Votes: 1

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too. Votes: 1

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. Votes: 1

When it came to dire warnings about Obamacare, the Republicans were the kings of 'swing and a miss.' People would flee the health care industry to avoid Obamacare? Nope - according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care gained about 1 million new jobs in preparation for increased demand. Votes: 1

My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I remember the first game I got to see him play against the Jets. The Kings beat the Jets, and I was happy that they did. Gretzky left the game after the first period, and I was upset about that. Votes: 1

Wolves have no kings. Votes: 0

Only God, no other kings! Votes: 0

The final argument of kings Votes: 0

War is a trade of kings. Votes: 0

War is the trade of kings. Votes: 0

Fear created gods; audacity created kings. Votes: 0

Punctuality is the politeness of kings. Votes: 0

Friends should be preferred to kings. Votes: 0

Nice customs curtsy to great kings. Votes: 0

Deception is the knowledge of kings. Votes: 0

Work only can keep even kings respectable. Votes: 0

The kings of modern thought are dumb. Votes: 0

Poets are far rarer birds than kings. Votes: 0

King of kings, that must be Elvis. Votes: 0

Death lays his icy hand on kings. Votes: 0

Too many kings can ruin an army Votes: 0

We are either kings or pawns of men Votes: 0

God has set popes over kings and kingdoms. Votes: 0

Hockey,' mused Marcus. 'The sport of kings. Votes: 0

Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers. Votes: 0

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings Votes: 0

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. Votes: 0

Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction. Votes: 0

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution Votes: 0

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings. Votes: 0

The queens in history compare favorably with the kings. Votes: 0

Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition. Votes: 0

...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings. Votes: 0

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings. Votes: 0

And love is love in beggars and in kings. Votes: 0

Good kings are slaves, and their people are free. Votes: 0

Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines Votes: 0

There are kings on every other bush in Ireland. Votes: 0

And love is love, in beggars and in kings. Votes: 0

I kill kings and presidents first, and next all capitalists. Votes: 0

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes. Votes: 0

It is not the custom of kings to kill kings. Votes: 0

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England. Votes: 0

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings. Votes: 0

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive. Votes: 0

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles. Votes: 0

If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown. Votes: 0

Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings. Votes: 0

If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings. Votes: 0

If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above? Votes: 0

The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun. Votes: 0

Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act. Votes: 0

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. Votes: 0

The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings. Votes: 0

All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out. Votes: 0

All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ. Votes: 0

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends. Votes: 0

Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings. Votes: 0

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time. Votes: 0

The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child. Votes: 0

The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings. Votes: 0

A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers. Votes: 0

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. Votes: 0

They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers. Votes: 0

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions. Votes: 0

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses. Votes: 0

From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame. Votes: 0

Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort. Votes: 0

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it. Votes: 0

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars. Votes: 0

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. Votes: 0

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings. Votes: 0

The gods don't care about men, no more than kings care about peasants. Votes: 0

There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style. Votes: 0

Having lived with kings, I have become a king in my own home. Votes: 0

You'd be surprised how many kings are only a queen with a moustache. Votes: 0

He who went to the kings to seek favors went away from Allah. Votes: 0

Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row. Votes: 0

English kings married their cousins and so their kids were as sharp as clubs. Votes: 0

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers. Votes: 0

There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings. Votes: 0

Mixtape legend, underground kings... Looking for the right way to do the wrong things Votes: 0

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. Votes: 0

In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings. Votes: 0

I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. Votes: 0

Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the world? Votes: 0

We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code. Votes: 0

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings. Votes: 0

In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings. Votes: 0

The fate of Charles I has only made kings more subtle, not more just. Votes: 0

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings! Votes: 0

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. Votes: 0

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major. Votes: 0

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. Votes: 0

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors. Votes: 0

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Votes: 0

My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings Votes: 0

Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition. Votes: 0

Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. Votes: 0

Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light. Votes: 0

Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. Votes: 0

It was always the poor grass that suffered most when two kings went to war. Votes: 0

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment. Votes: 0

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen. Votes: 0

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states. Votes: 0

Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?] Votes: 0

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Votes: 0

Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost. Votes: 0

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing. Votes: 0

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! Votes: 0

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man. Votes: 0

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. Votes: 0

No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations. Votes: 0

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. Votes: 0

Advances in science help to delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Church. Votes: 0

This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings. Votes: 0

In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings. Votes: 0

And the kings were no better to their own people than they were to each others. Votes: 0

To find riches is a beggar's dream, but to find love is the dream of kings. Votes: 0

We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P. Votes: 0

Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago. Votes: 0

I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings. Votes: 0

It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people. Votes: 0

For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown. Votes: 0

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion. Votes: 0

The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms. Votes: 0

What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings. Votes: 0

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be. Votes: 0

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings. Votes: 0

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men. Votes: 0

Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings. Votes: 0

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered. Votes: 0

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy. Votes: 0

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.' Votes: 0

For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind. Votes: 0

If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens. Votes: 0

All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead. Votes: 0

The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them. Votes: 0

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. Votes: 0

Your mind and soul are the kings of your physique way more than any exercise you do. Votes: 0

My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me. Votes: 0

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men. Votes: 0

Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens. Votes: 0

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. Votes: 0

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.] Votes: 0

For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. Votes: 0

In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges. Votes: 0

When I walk the streets, kings and queens step aside, every woman I meet, they all stay satisfied. Votes: 0

I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest. Votes: 0

Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne. Votes: 0

The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing. Votes: 0

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws Votes: 0

Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings. Votes: 0

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings Votes: 0

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches. Votes: 0

How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Votes: 0

For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule. Votes: 0

Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves? Votes: 0

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. Votes: 0

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains. Votes: 0

[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour. Votes: 0

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings... Votes: 0

I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings. Votes: 0

More men would be treated like kings if they would only treat their wives like queens instead of servants. Votes: 0

Taiki was watching the kings talk, feeling the kind of happiness that can only come after a long sorrow. Votes: 0

They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it. Votes: 0

...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings. Votes: 0

Fear made the gods; audacity has made kings. [Fr., La crainte fit les dieux; l'audace a fait les rois.] Votes: 0

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads. Votes: 0

Men like the kings and the queens because men are weak! No strong man accepts any king or queen! Votes: 0

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. Votes: 0

For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes. Votes: 0

The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth. Votes: 0

It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice. Votes: 0

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings. Votes: 0

To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars. Votes: 0

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. Votes: 0

If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more. Votes: 0

Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon. Votes: 0

We three kings of Orient are. Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star. Votes: 0

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings. Votes: 0

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents. Votes: 0

What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves. Votes: 0

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise. Votes: 0

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction. Votes: 0

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds. Votes: 0

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. Votes: 0

Pawns are such fascinating pieces, too...So small, almost insignificant, and yet--they can depose kings. Don't you find that interesting? Votes: 0

Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them. Votes: 0

In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God Votes: 0

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile. Votes: 0

This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd So many English kings. Votes: 0

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. Votes: 0

I got a king-sized bed. I don't know any kings, but if one came over, I guess he'd be comfortable. Votes: 0

Right now at the announce table we've got two kings and a queen, I'll let you figure out who's who. Votes: 0

The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not. Votes: 0

The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song. Votes: 0

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. Votes: 0

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile. Votes: 0

Why should I fear? I am on a Royal Mission. I am in the service of the King of kings. Votes: 0

All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers. Votes: 0

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit. Votes: 0

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. Votes: 0

Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings. Votes: 0

Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists? Votes: 0

I'm 100% Celt. In fact, I'm directly related to the progenitor of the high kings of Ireland, Niall of the Nine Hostages. Votes: 0

I have wined and dined with kings and queens and I’ve slept in alleys and dined on pork and beans. Votes: 0

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings. Votes: 0

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. Votes: 0

Manchester United is still in my heart. Disappointed they didn't win the title but they are still the kings of Premier League. Votes: 0

The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens. Votes: 0

Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings. Votes: 0

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief? Votes: 0

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen. Votes: 0

The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify. Votes: 0

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings. Votes: 0

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. Votes: 0

For centuries kings, priests, feudal lords, industrial bosses and parents have insisted that obedience is a virtue and that disobedience is a vice. Votes: 0

Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents ... Votes: 0

They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God. Votes: 0

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man. Votes: 0

The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler. Votes: 0

We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past! Votes: 0

War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people. Votes: 0

Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years. Votes: 0

I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost. Votes: 0

Do not enforce the tired wolf Dragging his infected wound homeward To sit tonight with the warm children Naming the pretty kings of France. Votes: 0

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor. Votes: 0

Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time. Votes: 0

This country has not been made by politicians, kings or governments. It has been made by farmers, labourers, our mothers and sisters and youth. Votes: 0

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. Votes: 0

I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried- "La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall! Votes: 0

I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire Votes: 0

The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings. Votes: 0

The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth. Votes: 0

The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old. Votes: 0

When Christ becomes our focal point, we become everything we are meant to be-a servant to the glory of the King of all kings. Votes: 0

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks? Votes: 0

All kings and queens are not born of royal bloodlines. Some become royal because of what they do once they realize who they are Votes: 0

Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it Votes: 0

All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them. Votes: 0

The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it. Votes: 0

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings. Votes: 0

Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men. Votes: 0

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there. Votes: 0

Look not thou on beauty's charming; Sit thou still when kings are arming; Taste not when the wine-cup glistens; Speak not when the people listens Votes: 0

The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings Votes: 0

Girl they love me like I'm Prince, like the new kid with the crown. Bunch of underground kings, thought you knew how we get down. Votes: 0

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant. Votes: 0

The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings. Votes: 0

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings "” stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again. Votes: 0

Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God as misers do in gold, and kings in scepters, you can never enjoy the world. Votes: 0

Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters. Votes: 0

Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts. Votes: 0

The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship. Votes: 0

In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards. Votes: 0

I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen. Votes: 0

That one,"-he nodded toward the closed door-" will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings. Votes: 0

Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts. Votes: 0

There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere. Votes: 0

It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger. Votes: 0

Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God. Votes: 0

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. Votes: 0

Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind. Votes: 0

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.] Votes: 0

The polar bear for many has become a living symbol of the dangers of global warming. The powerful kings of the arctic are finding their habitat shrinking. Votes: 0

Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own. Votes: 0

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.' Votes: 0

I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love. Votes: 0

In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads. Votes: 0

He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence. Votes: 0

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread. Votes: 0

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers. Votes: 0

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. Votes: 0

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery? Votes: 0

Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout. Votes: 0

This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, . . . This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land. Votes: 0

Meek and drake happen to be two of the young kings with strong voices and followings that give people hope I hope they know this n b smart! Votes: 0

I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings. Votes: 0

We can learn from mistakes of others, whether they're kings or our parents. When we do learn those lessons, we're better equipped to make our own dreams come true. Votes: 0

I learned French in Tunis, along with Arabic. I also learned French history. I knew the entire history of the kings of France. And I was fascinated by Versailles. Votes: 0

Real kings and queens are people whose heads are crowned with dreams as they sit on the throne of passion. They rule with visions in the regalia of inspirations! Votes: 0

Let all men know how empty and powerless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey Votes: 0

The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good. Votes: 0

I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists. Votes: 0

I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the right elements - witches, kings and assassinations. Votes: 0

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess. Votes: 0

Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have. Votes: 0

And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust. Votes: 0

Is it not a noble farce, where kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre? Votes: 0

I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black! - No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day. Votes: 0

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting. Votes: 0

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles? Votes: 0

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time. Votes: 0

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city. Votes: 0

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled? Votes: 0

Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things. Votes: 0

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do. Votes: 0

A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king. Votes: 0

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. Votes: 0

There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if they put down their swords and listened to their mothers. Votes: 0

A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king Votes: 0

No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like a vision, and this vanishes like a dream. Votes: 0

I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. That's why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that. Votes: 0

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles Votes: 0

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings Votes: 0

In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we're fortunate, we still manage to have a good life. Votes: 0

My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. Votes: 0

I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant in all: I know I'm one of Nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall. Votes: 0