Kings Quotes
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I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!
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There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King's Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad I am.
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.
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He was born a King. The wise men came from the East and asked, 'Where is He that is born King of the Jews?' (Matthew 2:2). He died a King.
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If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.
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For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
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It's hard being the king, but somebody's got to do it.
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I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.
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I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.
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To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.
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We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.
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But then, in Piazza di Carbonara, from stones she moved on to weapons, and it became the place where men fought to the last drop of blood. Beggars and gentlemen and princes hurried to see people killing each other in revenge. When some handsome youth fell, pierced by a blade beaten on the anvil of death, immediately beggars, bourgeois citizens, kings and queens offered applause that rose to the stars.
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To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
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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.
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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 crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.
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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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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
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No matter what obeisance the state may demand, we who serve the King are free indeed.
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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.
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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.
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Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this.
