Famous Quotes & Sayings

King James I

Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

King James I

God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe.

King James I

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

King James I

That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God.

King James I

If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.

King James I

God has power to create, or destroy, make, or unmake at his pleasure, to give life, or send death, to judge all, and to be judged nor accountable to none: to raise low things, and to make high things low at his pleasure, and to God are both soul and body due. And the like power have Kings; they make and unmake their subjects: they have power of raising, and casting down: of life, and of death: judges over all their subjects, and in all causes, and yet accountable to none but God only.

King James I

The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.

King Edward VIII

I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time.

King Edward VIII

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

Myles Munroe

The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history,

Mojo Nixon

Elvis is everywhere. Elvis is everything. Elvis is everybody. Elvis is still The King.

Moliere

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

Moliere

Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope

Moliere

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

Moliere

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

Molly Ivins

the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on the theory that they should live surrounded by the finest stuff. The Mall of America is built on the premise that we should all be able to afford this stuff. It may be a shallow culture, but it's by-God democratic. Sneer if you dare; this is something new in world history.

Millicent Fenwick

In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home.

Milton Friedman

Plato assumes somehow that government is a way in which you put unselfish and ungreedy men in charge of selfish and greedy men. But government is an institution whereby the people who have the greatest drive to get power over their fellow men, get in a position of controlling them. Look at the record of government. Where are these philosopher kings that Plato supposedly was trying to develop?

Nathan Fillion

Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

Nancy Mitford

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

Ken Salazar

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

Keira Knightley

They always pencil in my boobs. I was only angry when they were really droopy... For King Arthur, for a poster, they gave me these really strange droopy tits. I thought, well if you're going to make me fantasy breasts, at least make perky breasts.

Kate DiCamillo

When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

Kate DiCamillo

He was weeping. Although 'weeping' really is to small a word for the activity the kind had undertaken. Tears were cascading from his eyes. A small puddle had formed at his feet. I am not exaggerating. The king, it seemed, was intent on crying himself a river.

Kate DiCamillo

The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.

Julian Casablancas

Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).

Julian Assange

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

Ken Harrelson

In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.

Donald Trump

Don King is a big ... thief, and everyone in this room knows it,

Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It needs more to make a king than a piece of elvish glass, or a rabble such as this.

Michael Brown

This is truly a catastrophic event, ... Larry King Live.

Wyclef Jean

I'm the King of Spring Ting! Without 'Clef you can't have no Spring Ting!