Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Pepys

I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.

Samuel Smiles

There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

Wilbur Smith

A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

Ronald Reagan

All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system where individuals have the right to live like kings if they have the ability to earn that right and government control of the market system such as we find today in socialist nations.

Saint Augustine

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.

Saint Augustine

The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.

Saint Augustine

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Wiz Khalifa

It’s funny how all the fussing and fighting turns into us f-king and flying.

Winston Churchill

Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

William Thomas Stead

An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy.

William Wallace

I cannot be a traitor, since I never swore fealty to the English king.

Will Rogers

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

Zach Wamp

One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.

Zara Phillips

I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.

Yvette Clarke

Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

William Harvey

The animal's heart is the basis of its life, its chief member, the sun of its microcosm; on the heart all its activity depends, from the heart all its liveliness and strength arise. Equally is the king the basis of his kingdoms, the sun of his microcosm, the heart of the state; from him all power arises and all grace stems.

William H. Macy

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.

William Hazlitt

Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they are 'the best of kings'. It is their power, their splendour, it is the apprehension of the personal consequences of their favour or their hatred that dazzles the imagination and suspends the judgement of their favourites or their vassals; but death cancels the bond of allegiance and of interest; and seen AS THEY WERE, their power and their pretensions look monstrous and ridiculous.

William Hazlitt

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

William Hazlitt

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

William Hazlitt

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

William Doyle

Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler.

Walter Rauschenbusch

It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always inviting immediate action

Walter Raleigh

It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

Vladimir Nabokov

IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis the Sixteenth, the drums drowning his speech on the scaffold. Herman Melville at breakfast, feeling a sardine to his cat. Poe's wedding. Lewis Carroll's picnics. The Russians leaving Alaska, delighted with the deal. Shot of a seal applauding.

Wynton Marsalis

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

Wynton Marsalis

This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments.

William Makepeace Thackeray

'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'