Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pietro Metastasio

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

Pietro Aretino

With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.

Pindar

Law , the king of all mortals and immortals.

Paradise is open to all kind hearts.

Pierre Corneille

Violence is just, where kindness is vain.

Pierre Corneille

I would not like a king who could obey.

Pierre Corneille

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

Pierre Corneille

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

Pierre Corneille

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

Pierre Corneille

I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.

Pierre Corneille

The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.

Pierre Corneille

He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.

Pierre Corneille

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

Pierre Corneille

Liberty may be of no more use Than stirring up the flame of civil wars; Then, by disorder fatal to the world, One wants no king, the other wants no equal.

Pierre Corneille

Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.

Philippa Gregory

Jane," I said quietly. She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer. "Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying." "If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out.

Philip Massinger

From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many.

Pope Francis

I believe in the kindness of others, and that I must love them without fear.

Peter McWilliams

Send the light of your own loving ahead of you. When you get there, the loving will have prepared a place for you. Be kind, gentle, and enjoy the journey.

Peter Ackroyd

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

Pete Wentz

I'm a little bit of a makeout king. I don't discriminate too much.

Pete Townshend

The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.

Pete Townshend

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

Pete Seeger

It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was.

Pete Seeger

Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.

Pete Seeger

There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.

Phil Rizzuto

There was an aura about him (Joe DiMaggio). He walked like no one else walked. He did things so easily. He was immaculate in everything he did. Kings of State wanted to meet him and be with him. He carried himself so well. He could fit in any place in the world.

Phil Robertson

I'm standing under a sign that says, 'Budweiser is king of beers,' and everybody's got their beers here today," I told them. "But I'm here to talk about the King of Kings. I know I might look like a preacher, but I'm not. Here's how you can tell whether someone's a preacher or not: if he gets up and says some words and passes a hat for you to put money in, that's a preacher. This is free. This if free of charge, which proves I'm not a preacher.

Peter Stone

There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.

Peter Green

The blues - it's kind of like a religion, really.

R. A. Salvatore

A man inferior with the blade or with his thoughts can still so elevate himself," Entreri explained curtly, "if he can impart the belief that some god or other speaks through him. It is the greatest deception in all the world and one embraced by kings and lords, while the minor lying thieves on the streets or Calimport and other cities lose their tongues for so attempting to coax the purses of others.

Quentin Tarantino

To me "King Kong" is a metaphor for America's fear of the black male and to me that's obvious. All right, so I mean that was one of the first things I said when I was talking to a friend of mine after he saw Peter Jackson's version of "King Kong."

Quentin Tarantino

I mean, of course "King Kong" is a metaphor for the slave trade. I'm not saying the makers of "King Kong" meant it to be that way, but that's what, that's the movie that they made whether they meant to make it or not.