Top 1200 Good Kings Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I always sing Amy Winehouse's 'Valerie,' but also Kings Of Leon's 'Use Somebody.'

What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.

There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.

Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

When I walk the streets, kings and queens step aside, every woman I meet, they all stay satisfied.

I got a king-sized bed. I don't know any kings, but if one came over, I guess he'd be comfortable.

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.

And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing.

I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'

Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the past several hundred years, one progressive movement after another has challenged traditions of domination - from the 18th century "rights of man" movement challenging the "divinely ordained right" of kings to rule their "subjects" to today's environmental movement challenging the once hallowed "conquest of nature."

If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.

Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the world?

This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings.

Do you know why they call a drummer's seat a throne? Because drummers are kings and queens.

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.

Kings also sleep; but the clever ones, with one eye open, just like dolphins and whales

A revelation came to me at 16. All true princes must someday become kings.

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.

For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

I don't believe people playing rock n' roll should have crowns. We're not kings and queens. Anybody can play it.

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

When in the wondrous realms above Our Saviour had been called upon, To save our world of sin by love, He said, "Thy will, O Lord, be done.' The Kings of kings left worlds of light, Became the meek and lowly one; In brightest day or darkest night He said, "Thy will, O Lord, be done." No crown of thorns, no cruel cross Could make our great Redeemer shun. He counted his own will but loss, And said, "Thy will, O Lord, be done." We take the bread and cup this day, In memory of the Sinless One, And pray for strength, That we may say, As he, "Thy will, O Lord, be done."

The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: 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. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

Right now at the announce table we've got two kings and a queen, I'll let you figure out who's who.

...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.

I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.

I blast "Northern Sky," by the Capital Kings, on the way there, but at the gym, I totally zone out.

My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings

How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.

It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.

[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.

I love giving local kids and families the chance to experience Kings basketball for the first time.