Kings Quotes
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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.
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All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.
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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.
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The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.
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Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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The cold hand of history, which is for ever robbing us of some of our oldest and best cherished stories, points rigidly to the fact that no such person as King Arthur ever presided over a Round Table. Be this as it may, romance still hugs her heroes to her heart as possessions to be not willingly let die.
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Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.
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The king's name is a tower of strength.
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.
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Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King.
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For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.
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For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
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I ask people what piece they are on the chessboard. And some people say 'I'm the king' or 'I'm the knight.' And then they ask me what piece I am, and I say, 'I'm no piece. I take the position of God.'
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Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage due to it. But when it claims to have discovered the real world for us and laughs at the worlds of all simple-minded men, then we must say it is like a general grown intoxicated with his power, usurping the throne of his king
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The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.
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The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal.
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The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.
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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.
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This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.
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If princes and kings could follow it (Tao), all things would by themselves abide, Heaven and Earth would unite and sweet dew would fall. People would by themselves find harmony, without being commanded.
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It's hard being the king, but somebody's got to do it.
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Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.
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Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.
