Top 1200 Good Kings Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.

Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

People crown kings and queens at homecoming parades all the time. We do a lot of things in our society that are simply symbolic.

The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.

Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.

The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.

I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost.

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.

The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.

I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince insisted. "And so we all begin, determined to better our fathers' performances, knowing we can change the very nature of humanity, make it better, cleaner. But then daggers strike in the night, and peasants revolt, and all manner of atrocities become a necessity as breakfast. Only Princes believe in the greater good. Kings know there is only Reign, and all things may be committed in its holy name.

I caught the U.S. Open a couple of times, but, man, I would love to catch Wimbledon and watch Nadal - he is the king of all kings.

Ave Dolce Vita, Rex Regum! Hail Sweet Life, King of Kings! We love you and we believe in you!

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.

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.

Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

'The Grace of Kings' was meant to read like a set of legends about characters who were bigger than life.

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

Everybody you see around me, they're kings. Every last one of them. I ain't the only one that got paper.

What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.

Kings and queens are expected to have offspring to carry on the name. There are no such demands on American presidents, but there is an expectation. There is a hope.

The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

Disasters happen. Nature refuses to cooperate with the best-laid plans of kings and lesser men alike.

Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

I love mixing prints. The costume designer for 'Pair of Kings' and I have actually incorporated the trend for my character 'Mikayla.'

I'm 100% Celt. In fact, I'm directly related to the progenitor of the high kings of Ireland, Niall of the Nine Hostages.

Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings.

Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.

I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.

There is this brutal side to tennis. It was invented as a game for kings and cardinals and people with a lot of power who didn't have to share the field with other players.

The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

Months after I retired, the Kings won the Stanley Cup and I was there for that game... I happened to be there with a buddy of mine and I was like, 'Oh, I miss this.'

As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive.

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things.

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.

Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.

The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

Can it be believed that the democracy, which has overthrown the feudal system and vanquished kings, will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?

In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.

My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon.

I'm a huge Toronto Maple Leafs fan, and the only other teams whose games I go to are the Rangers and the Kings.

We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them.

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and go into exile to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are.

When Christ becomes our focal point, we become everything we are meant to be-a servant to the glory of the King of all kings.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.