Kings Quotes
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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in massive pyramids, to obtain an earthly immortality. In the seventeenth century they were sold as quack medicines, and now they are burnt for fuel! The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise.
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Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.
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Time is the king of men.
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...our progenitors, the kings of England, have before these times been lords of the English sea on every side...and it would very much grieve us if in this kind of defence our royal honour should be lost.
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Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.
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The king's name is a tower of strength.
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A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
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Some men are born kings; and some are born statesmen. The two are seldom the same.
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Nice customs curtsy to great kings.
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I'm certainly not a f**king fashion consultant. Don't call me if you want to know how to dress. I just rap. That's all I really know how to do.
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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.
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You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still am I King of those.
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I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.
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All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ.
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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
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F**king dance whenever you want to dance.
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You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.
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Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.
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The outsiders have become kings and queens of the castle. It is a whole lot easier to sit outside the tent and throw firecrackers inside; it is much, much harder to sit inside the tent and govern not only your enemies, but your close friends as well.
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Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.
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'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
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The common law of chattels, that is to say, the law ultimately adopted by the King's courts for the regulation of disputes about the ownership and possession of goods, was, to be a substantial extent, a by-product of that new procedure which had been mainly introduced to perfect the feudal scheme of land law.
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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.
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Though I be but prince of Wales, yet I am the king of courtesy.
