Kings Quotes
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A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.
Richard Scott Bakker
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And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
Edward Dyer
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And nothing can we call our own but death
And that small model of the barren earth
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings.
William Shakespeare
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The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.
Claudius Claudianus
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The Spanish offered me their protection, and liberty to those who would fight for the cause of the kings. I accepted their offers, seeing myself entirely abandoned by my brethren, the French.
Toussaint Louverture
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The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.
Bertrand de Jouvenel
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If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.
Oliver Cromwell
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To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
William Hazlitt
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I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.
William Shakespeare
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I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
Victor Hugo
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Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.
George Bernard Shaw
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It's hard being the king, but somebody's got to do it.
LL Cool J
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I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.
Jane Austen
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Breath is the king of mind.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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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.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. (Matthew 2:11) This adoration, too, was not the same as the worship of God. In my opinion they did not yet recognize him as God, but they acted in keeping with the custom mentioned in Scripture, according to which Kings and important people were worshiped; this did not mean more than falling down before them at their feet and honoring them.
Martin Luther
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Kings can only use their best tools.
T. H. White
