Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the world?

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.

Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.

What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.

To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.

For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.

Men like the kings and the queens because men are weak! No strong man accepts any king or queen!

The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm.

I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.

I fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son.

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings.

I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.

A king without a queen is not a king. The main point of creation is the union of male and female.

For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar

Jesus-murdered. Martin Luther King-murdered. Gandhi-murdered. Malcolm X-murdered. Reagan-wounded.

In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.

Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.

In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.

King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.

Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

When I walk the streets, kings and queens step aside, every woman I meet, they all stay satisfied.

Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee

I have wined and dined with kings and queens and I’ve slept in alleys and dined on pork and beans.

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music!

I got a king-sized bed. I don't know any kings, but if one came over, I guess he'd be comfortable.

If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.

The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.

Now I understand why King Stannis let the wildlings through the Wall. He means for us to eat them.

As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king's highway.

So doth the greater glory dim the less: A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by.

Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.

It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

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