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  • Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause. -- John Dryden
  • Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. -- Charles James Fox
  • In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep. -- Robert Herrick
  • What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day? -- Christopher Marlowe
  • Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. -- William Penn
  • History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. -- William Morris
  • The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. -- Khalil Gibran
  • The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.' -- Lewis Carroll
  • Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too. -- Kailash Satyarthi
  • It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being 'greedy' by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings. -- Julie Burchill
  • The Last Argument of Kings. -- Louis XIV
  • Grammar, which can govern even Kings. -- Moliere
  • Kings fear change. Leaders crave it. -- Seth Godin
  • Kings are the slaves of history. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • Kings can only use their best tools. -- T.H. White
  • Kings that made laws, first broke 'em ... -- Aphra Behn
  • Kings are falling like leaves this autumn. -- George R. R. Martin
  • Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent -- KRS-One
  • Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off. -- Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong. -- Alexander Pope
  • Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings. -- Howard Carter
  • Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear. -- Thomas de Quincey
  • Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • Kings and such are just as funny as politicians. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • Being with the Dap-Kings is like being an athlete. -- Sharon Jones
  • Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it. -- Horace
  • I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings. -- Bill Wyman
  • The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge? -- Thomas Hobbes
  • Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority. -- Victor Hugo
  • Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. -- Edmund Burke
  • Bees are a good omen to Kings, for they signify an obsequious people. -- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
  • War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. -- William Cowper
  • Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever. -- Rick DeMarinis
  • Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn. -- Gerald Massey
  • The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19). -- John Piper
  • Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings. -- Eugenie de Guerin
  • There really is no cost, only the privilege of serving the King of Kings. -- Helen Roseveare
  • Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them. -- Roger Williams
  • Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
  • Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood -- KRS-One
  • Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise. -- Hilaire Belloc
  • Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. -- Robert Burns
  • Kings also sleep; but the clever ones, with one eye open, just like dolphins and whales -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • The world is full of Kings and Queens, Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams. -- Ronnie James Dio
  • Kings kill; clowns don't; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own. -- Robert Herrick
  • This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate. -- Thomas Dekker
  • As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive. -- Five for Fighting
  • Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon. -- Hillary Scott
  • Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! -- Honore de Balzac
  • People say you can abuse marijuana. You can abuse cheeseburgers. Does that mean we should close Burger Kings. -- Joe Rogan
  • I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries. -- A. J. Cook
  • We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. -- James Madison
  • I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. -- Winston Churchill
  • Ave Dolce Vita, Rex Regum! Hail Sweet Life, King of Kings! We love you and we believe in you! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.' -- Sharon Jones
  • I blast "Northern Sky," by the Capital Kings, on the way there, but at the gym, I totally zone out. -- Gabby Douglas
  • Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings. -- Saadi
  • ...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England. -- James M. Barrie
  • Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others. -- Sallust
  • With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs. -- Bill Wyman
  • Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. -- Guru Nanak
  • If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it. -- Jacqueline Carey
  • Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home -- Pam Jenoff
  • To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things, -- Anne Bradstreet
  • Kings need the world, but the world does not need the kings! Let them disappear like the horrible ghosts of the nightmares! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • The Dodgers. My favorite hockey team is the Kings. I like the Clippers in basketball. And I like USC college. Football, the Giants. -- Alyssa Milano
  • Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell. -- Steven-Elliot Altman
  • Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.] -- George Herbert
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  • I'm very much into the Gypsy Kings. It's rumba and very festive, very passionate music, rhythmic guitar, passionate singing about love from happy people. -- Sofia Milos
  • And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object -- Abraham Lincoln
  • David Stern might be the smartest executive in the history of professional sports. His obsession with the Vagrant Kings is one of the strangest stories. -- R.E. Graswich
  • Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • Kings don't beg, they decree. They have only one destiny and that's to reign. God has made you king. Reign and rule, refuse to beg! -- Chris Oyakhilome
  • When the clouds over the land rise like a mountain, a long with it's wishes, it can never cover the errors and mistakes made by Kings. -- Auliq Ice
  • Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser. -- Criss Jami
  • Kings and queens might do wicked things, but they don't nag. One thing I like about Bloody Mary: she never said a word about lung cancer. -- Florence King
  • There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do. -- Aaron Sorkin
  • When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player. -- Donald Dunn
  • All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains... -- Michael Moorcock
  • Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest somehow found it [2 Kings 22:8]. -- Elie Wiesel
  • Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal. -- Thomas Hardy
  • I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven to be drinking it through time eternal. -- Brigit of Kildare
  • Most of us are lucky not to be Kings and Heroes, because we do not have to make the choices that Kings and Heroes have to make. -- Cressida Cowell
  • I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it. -- Denzel Washington
  • A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed. -- Orson Scott Card
  • Kings are chosen by the Source, so it is said ... Therefore those who fight for the king can be said to be godly. Is that not cause enough? -- David Gemmell
  • The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates. -- Elizabeth I
  • Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men. -- Mark Twain
  • When life is tough or even unbearable and we want to give up, God will send us a partner to help us make the journey - 1 Kings 19 & Luke 1:39 - 56 -- John Nix-McReynolds
  • I've worked on really big budget movies as a designer - 'Vanilla Sky,' 'Three Kings;' I've been in that world, and you can just see people get nervous. -- Catherine Hardwicke
  • Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings / Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings / When ordinary people who are like you and me / Are the builders of their destiny. -- Noel Gallagher
  • Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat. -- Harry Houdini
  • Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves. -- Walter Savage Landor
  • Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie. -- Beau Bridges
  • Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • To see Good Tennis! What divine joy Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ? Let other people play at other things; The King of Games is still the Game of Kings. -- James Kenneth Stephen
  • I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director. -- Antonio Banderas
  • Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted to be liked, not feared; admired, not loathed. -- Tom Shales
  • I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much. -- Matthew Perry
  • I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings. -- Bill Wyman
  • If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis." --- Jaqen H'ghar, A Clash of Kings -- George R. R. Martin
  • Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of Kings. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds. -- Farouk of Egypt
  • I put myself on the same level as everyone else around me - from the directrice to the workman, everyone. Except my pets - they are the Kings; you must treat them like royalty. -- Azzedine Alaia
  • Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • Some men look great unshaven; others just look like they forgot to shave. Beards and mustaches can be really distinctive if you go for an earthy, rock-and-roll look like the Kings of Leon or the Killers. -- Donatella Versace
  • The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings. -- Julius Wellhausen
  • Stuart Clark's The Sun Kings is undoubtedly the most gripping and brilliant popular-science history account that I have ever read. It is informative, accurate, and relevant. Clark's ability to write so vividly makes me seethe with jealousy. -- Owen Gingerich
  • He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • Weese," she would whisper, first of all. "Dunsen, Chiswyck, Polliver, Raff the Sweetling. The Tickler and the Hound. Ser Gregor, Ser Armory, Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, King Joffrey, Queen Cersei." - Arya Stark, A Clash of Kings -- George R. R. Martin
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