Top 1200 Kings And Princes Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia.

We know that no trust can be placed on princes and that cursed is the man who placeth his reliance on an arm of flesh.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.

Girls may love movies about fairytale princes, but their most captivating romance is with their friends.

The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.

Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.

Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares.

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.

Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state.

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.

Wolves have no kings.

Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.

In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly.

Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

The Kings played out of the Memorial Community Centre, an old wooden barn like you'd see in other Prairie towns. It was built after World War II and the Kings were the biggest thing in town. The Memorial was packed for every game - maybe 3,000 when we'd play the Kenora Muskies or other rival towns. It seemed like everyone in town came out to games.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

Both princes and princesses belong in palaces of power, but the doors won't always open unless you fight for your rights.

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

It is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or make violent speeches about them on platforms. Any fool can rip and rend a costly garment, but not every man can cut out and make one. To expect perfection in kings, prime ministers, or rulers of any king, is senseless and unreasonable. We would exhibit more wisdom if we prayed for them more, and criticized less.

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly.

Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

In an election, there are no kings.

I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people.

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.

The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.

Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

If I had power over the Jews, as our princes and cities have, I would deal severely with their lying mouth

Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

For me, the Parc des Princes is special, somewhere I'd go to spend my pocket money.

Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.