Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chanakya

The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.

Chanakya

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

Chanakya

It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.

Chanakya

Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.

Chanakya

If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.

Chandra Wilson

My first show was 'The King and I' when I was five.

Charlie Munger

People have always had this craving to have someone tell them the future. Long ago, kings would hire people to read sheep guts. There's always been a market for people who pretend to know the future. Listening to today's forecasters is just as crazy as when the king hired the guy to look at the sheep guts.

Charles Mackay

The king can drink the best of wine -So can I;And has enough when he would dine -So have I;And can not order rain or shine -Nor can I.Then where's the difference - let me see -Betwixt my lord the king and me?

Charles Mackay

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.

Charles M. Schulz

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up.

Charles Inglis

LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.

Billy Zane

One who knows nothing can understand nothing

Billy Wilder

The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.

Bill Maher

New Rule: All Fox News employees must now refer to President Bush as "my liege". If they are going to treat President Bush like he's an infallible king, they need to start addressing him as if he was an infallible king. And they can do this by addressing him as "my liege".

Bill Maher

Rick Santorum has come out against contraception and against college. He wants us literally to be f**king stupid.

Bill Ayers

Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical. By the end he was calling for revolution. People don't know this because they go to too many prayer breakfasts on his birthday.

Beth Moore

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

Beth Moore

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

Bill Wyman

I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.

Bill Wyman

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

Bill Veeck

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?

Anne Sullivan

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Edgar Winter

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

Benjamin Franklin

Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.

Benjamin Franklin

The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.

Benjamin Franklin

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

Benjamin Franklin

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

Benjamin Franklin

Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.

Benjamin Franklin

God bless the King, and grant him long to Reign.

Benjamin Franklin

There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.

Benjamin Franklin

A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.

Benjamin Franklin

The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.

Barbara Tuchman

Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal.