All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the… — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire. — Bias of Priene Copy Share Image
A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him. — Akbar Copy Share Image
George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Away with your president! We shall have a king... the army will salute him as monarch; your militia will leave you and… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that… — Homer Copy Share Image
As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
After Darwin, God's role changes from being the designer of all creatures great and small to being the designer of the laws… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I believe that it is indeed easier for a woman who follows a male monarch, as it was in my case. There… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
Here in the United States, the Zionists and their co-religionists have complete control of our government. For many reasons, too many and… — Benjamin H. Freedman Copy Share Image
There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Turn the anger of the Almighty against the godless Turks and Barbarians who despise Christ the Lord…In the royal city of the… — Pope Pius II Copy Share Image
As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Within Germany, unrest fermented after Germany lost World War I, and the German people, including the workers and the military, detested the… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals,… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through And keep their impious turbans on without Good morrow… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends. — Horace Copy Share Image
Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold. — John Wolcot Copy Share Image
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
