King Quotes

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To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is… — Edmund Burke
But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments due for our… — Eusebius
Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming… — John Aubrey
For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and the king. — Horace
The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage due to it.… — Rabindranath Tagore
Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared… — Miguel de Cervantes
Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made… — Miguel de Cervantes
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave. — Cato the Elder
No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked;… — George Bernard Shaw
Philostratus, in his Life of Apollonius Tyaneus represents the latter as informing King Phraotes that "the Oneiropolists, or Interpreters of Visions, are wont never to… — Anna Kingsford
In the storm, like a prophet o’ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches....… — James Russell Lowell
If you add anything to Jesus as a requirement for being happy, that's your real king. — Timothy Keller
Architecture is the king or queen of the arts, — Gaetano Pesce
Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court. — William Shakespeare
Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find. — B.K.S. Iyengar
King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that all those men… — Diodorus Siculus
If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King. — Timothy Keller
A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of… — Seneca the Younger
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope. — Thomas a Kempis
There are very few Japanese Jews. As a result, there is no Japanese word for Alan King. — Johnny Carson
Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning. — Saadi
When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain, judge, condemn, and… — Emma Goldman

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