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kings writing men
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon. Charles Caleb Colton
kings two feet
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.
kings passion people
Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of Kings.
kings dinner might
The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.
kings winning long
It has been well said that if a great king should bring us a great heap of gold, and bid us take as much as we could count in a day, we should make a long day of it; but to win souls is far nobler work. How is it that we so soon withdraw from it? Charles Spurgeon
kings garden sweat
See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even Eden's luscious fruits. There the mischief of the serpent in the first garden was undone: there the curse was lifted from earth, and borne by the woman's promised seed.
kings together may
You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may keep you; they must all be given up, they must be brought out like Canaanite kings from the cave and be hanged up in the sun.
kings sheep black
I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family. Alan Moore
kings dark blow
Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent To blow up the King and Parli’ment. Three-score barrels of powder below To prove old England’s overthrow; By God’s providence he was catch’d With a dark lantern and burning match. Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring. Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
grease brain use
On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity. Albert Einstein
grease books-and-movies philosopher
Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease. Anthony Daniels
grease tone window
But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me! Dev Patel
grease meat foam
In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure. Dan Simmons
grease machines done
Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors. Danah Boyd
grease people using
When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants. Craig Venter
grease great king lead pigs populace sovereigns
ANOINT, v.t. To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good. --Judibras Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
grease fantastic stage
I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success. Jeffrey Archer
grease dull floating
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top. Italo Calvino
slippery trouble
Today, I had trouble because it was slippery and dangerous, Jan Ullrich
slippery-slope firsts steps
Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything. Jonathan Haidt
slippery-slope littles bits
Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope. Thomas Peterffy