Brotherhood Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

“Dead kings were honored in the Six Kingdoms only insofar as they had the good sense to stop walking around above ground.”

— Robert Kroese

Kings are the slaves of history.

— Leo Tolstoy

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else…

— John Pearson

I've studied kings, so I'm very aware of the feet of clay of authority.

— David Starkey

A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.

— William Shakespeare

To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.

— Cardinal Richelieu

In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.

— Anonymous

“Archaeology digs the Bible’s grave.”

— Steve Dustcircle

“Many things are found hidden beneath the ground. Men and kings and ancient warriors and the weapons they forged. All are eventually buried.”

— Brian Lee Durfee

“Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world,—with kings, The powerful of the earth,—the wise, the good, 35 Fair forms, and hoary…

— William Cullen Bryant

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

— Walter Savage Landor