Kings Quotes
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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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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
Victor Hugo
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
William Cowper
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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.
C. S. Lewis
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To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.
William Beebe
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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.
W. A. Criswell
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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.
Michael Eric Dyson
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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 would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.
David Starkey
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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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The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.
Plutarch
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We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.
Walt Disney
