A Quote by Huey Long

Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.

Huey Long

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Crown Every Every Man King Man Wears

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Huey Long
American - Politician
August 30, 1893 - September 10, 1935

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.

Ambrose Bierce

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

Franz Grillparzer

This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every king sleeps, but not every king wakes up as king! The snakes of the intrigue crawl around during the night! The cleverest king is the least sleeping king!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

You gotta claim the crown and the people also gotta crown you, too. It's not just about somebody saying they king.

Fabolous

No one who wears a crown is ever safe.

George R. R. Martin

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

William Shakespeare

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

Thomas Paine

Then Frodo came forward and took the crown from Faramir and bore it to Gandalf; and Aragorn knelt, and Gandalf set the White Crown upon his head and said: Now come the days of the King, and may they be blessed while the thrones of the Valar endure!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

Thomas Carlyle

That Oscar can be a jinx... It can... damage irreparably one's relations with family, friends. It's an uneasy head that wears the crown.

Joan Fontaine

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

Hugh Kingsmill

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

Francis Bacon

Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.