A Quote by Thomas Carlyle

The king is the man who can.

Thomas Carlyle

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He Man King Man

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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish - Philosopher
December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

Mark Twain

Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man.

Jean-Paul Sartre

When a king begins to act like a king, it is not long before someone else is king! Serving is a way we can place value on one another. A wise man is a server.

Andy Andrews

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

Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself ... swore to myself ... that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies ... now I can't even tell one from the other.

George R. R. Martin

The admission of one man, either hereditarily or for life only, into the place of chief of a country, is an evidence of the infirmity of man. Nature has set up no difference between a king and other men; a king, therefore, is purely the creation of our own hands.

William Godwin

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

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.

George R. R. Martin

One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.

Michael Drayton

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

Jeff Bridges

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

Cameron Dokey

I want to see myself as being the king of this: the king of music, man, and everything I lay my hands on.

Ghostface Killah

I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.

Angus Young

Content has always driven the business. Now it's no longer the queen to a king of distribution; it is the king, king, king, because the consumer has complete choice.