A Quote by Voltaire

Friends should be preferred to kings.

Voltaire

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Voltaire
French - Writer
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

Everyone has their preferred stroller, their preferred crib, their preferred Moses basket. And they have advice on that too!

Tori Spelling

Me? I was lost for long time. I didn’t make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school […]. I spent all my free time up in those trees. Everyone called me Tree Boy for the longest time. […]. I preferred trees to people. After that I preferred pigeons, but it was trees first.

Rabih Alameddine

I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.

Edward VII

We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope.

J. C. Ryle

God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe.

King James I

Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.

Mary J. Blige

Kings kill; clowns don't; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

William Penn

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.

Abraham Cowley

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca the Elder

I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

Ian Mcewan

They are my friends. If they are the Beatles or the kings of China, it doesn't matter lo me.

Astrid Kirchherr

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Thomas A. Edison

They say the state should not impose on its citizens a preferred way of life, but should leave them as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

Michael Sandel

I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut - during the school time of year - but I preferred it in New Hampshire. I preferred the culture, the landscape, the relative solitude. I've always loved it.

Donald Hall

Peace and quiet are preferred. Victory should not be praised.

Laozi

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