• Categories
  • Kings Quotes   403
  • Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Life Quotes , Kings Quotes
  • When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when you infest the whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Kings Quotes , Sea Quotes
  • Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'Tis king against king. It is ever a romance of history in all dynasties--the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Kings Quotes , Giving Quotes
  • Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Kings Quotes , Order Quotes
  • When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge; For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Kings Quotes
  • It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense. They are themselves, always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Kings Quotes , Invisible Hand Quotes