Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Monroe

National honor is the national property of the highest value.

Emily Dickinson

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

Edward Thorndike

Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.

Edward Coke

The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

Holly Black

As the last Seelie left the hall, Roiben, self-declared King of the Unseelie Court, nearly fell into his throne. Kaye tried to smile at him, but he was not looking at her. He was staring out across the brugh with eyes the color of falling ash. Corny had not stopped laughing.

Henry Van Dyke

Man said, "I am tired of kings! Sons of the robber-chiefs of yore, They make me pay for their lust and their war; I am the puppet, they pull the strings; The blood of my heart is the wine they drink. I will govern myself for awhile I think, And see what that brings!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men are four; He who knows and knows not that he knows. He is asleep; wake him. He who knows not and knows not that he knows not. He is a fool; shun him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not. He is a child; teach him. He who knows and knows that he knows. He is a king; follow him. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

Hassanal Bolkiah

Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.

Heston Blumenthal

This kitchen is completely calm. Some of the old-fashioned chefs - they become kings in their kitchen, they've got to be called chef. But I don't care if someone calls me chef or Heston, it really doesn't bother me.

Hesiod

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

Herodotus

The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.

Herodotus

This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas.

Herodotus

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

Helen Mirren

There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there.

Heinrich Heine

The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.

Hilary Mantel

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.

Heraclitus

War is the father and king of all,

Heraclitus

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

Heraclitus

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

Henry Ward Beecher

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings.

Henry Fielding

None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.

Helen Thomas

We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.

Gordon Smith

From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

John Dryden

War is a trade of kings.

John Dryden

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

John Dryden

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.