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Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces! -- Georg Buchner
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. -- Henry James
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. -- Horace
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise. -- Hilaire Belloc
Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies. -- Madeleine Albright
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. -- Francois Mauriac
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. -- Alexandre Dumas
Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them. -- Leonard Maltin
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces. -- William Shakespeare
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
Earth walks on Earth, Glittering in gold; Earth goes to Earth, Sooner than it wold; Earth builds on Earth, Palaces and towers; Earth says to Earth, Soon, all shall be ours. -- Walter Scott
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings. -- Henry David Thoreau
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. -- Ansel Adams
It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins. -- Buenaventura Durruti
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers. -- Imelda Marcos
A library is a palace of dreams. -- M.C. Beaton
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. -- John Donne
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. -- William Blake
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. -- John Milton
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks, -- Ada Louise Huxtable
Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. -- Woody Harrelson
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. -- Horace
But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland. -- Anselm Kiefer
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior. -- William Shenstone
Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels. -- Thomas Traherne
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages. -- Robert Owen
I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. -- Josephine Baker
Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces. -- Rufus Wainwright
When we went to Iraq, we stayed in one of Saddam's palaces. It was kind of creepy. If those walls could talk, there's no telling what stories they'd tell. -- Kellie Pickler
Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system. -- Geoff Mulgan
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I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough. -- Jaye Davidson
I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad. -- Josephine Baker
The China Rich seem to be spending on a scale that's just beyond anything we've ever seen before. They are building and buying an insane amount of luxury residences around the world, commissioning huge flying palaces from Boeing, and paying ridiculous amounts for art. -- Kevin Kwan
Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone. -- Joshua Foer
I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the bills; keep artists happy; and cope with collectors (oy!), curators (ay-yi-yi), critics (woo-hoo!), and occasionally plumbers. That their fiscal life often hangs in the balance only adds to the energy. -- Jerry Saltz
There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages. -- Robert Owen
Let there be peace within my walls and prosperity within my palaces. -- Catherine Ponder
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. -- Horace
Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings. -- Eugenie de Guerin
Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism! -- Wendell Berry
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages? -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich. -- Wilfred Grenfell
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king. -- Horace
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home. -- John Howard Payne
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings -- Horace
Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces; they that enter there Must go upon their knees. -- John Webster
Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery. -- Joseph Warren
Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels. -- George Henry Lewes
Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights. -- Gloria Allred
The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. -- Ayn Rand
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. -- James Joyce
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors? -- Petrarch
Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact. -- Osbert Lancaster
Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages. -- Abraham Cowley
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. -- Thomas Paine
Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding. -- Philip Sidney
Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
In a simple and a peaceful cottage with a beautiful view, you will not be dreaming about the palaces or the heaven, because you already have a perfect thing! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery. -- Wilfrid Sheed
A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand. -- Billy Joel
White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and chilly palaces for the mountains or the sea. -- Louis Bromfield
When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,- Golden curls, and quiver, and bow. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice. -- Rick Riordan
I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice." -- Rick Riordan
Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully. -- Shirley MacLaine

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