Cobblers Quote by John Gay Download Open image “From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.” — John Gay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cobblers Fame Kings Masters Servant Wounds
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. — Aesop Copy Share Image
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A kings son gets a better half of what they desire, a kings servant gets a better half of what they are desired to… — ROBERT RONO Copy Share Image
In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“Many good men have been bad kings, Maester Aemon used to say, and some bad men have been good kings.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“king is a servant when he mimics other kings without understanding. A king is a trader when he uses rules to get all the… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
A master of men was the Goodly Fere, A mate of the wind and sea, If they think they ha' slain ourGoodly Fere They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil? — John Gay Copy Share Image
To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman — John Gay Copy Share Image
Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows. — John Gay Copy Share Image
'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts. — John Gay Copy Share Image
Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either. — John Gay Copy Share Image
A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you… — John Gay Copy Share Image
Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the shoe too… — John Gay Copy Share Image
A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend… — John Gay Copy Share Image
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh. — John Ford Copy Share Image
In the beginning, I was put off by the harshness of German. Someone would order a piece of cake, and it sounded as if… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Other people had strived for freedom and promise and ratatatata but the Constitution [of USA] was the first time we codified it aspirationally and… — Ben Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ...… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres. — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
