Distress Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distress Enemy Kings Subjects War
“A king should first gain the confidence of the foe and when he has gained it should spring on him like a wolf. The… — Meera Uberoi Copy Share Image
A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A good king knows when to save his strength and when to destroy his enemies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his people,not a… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of two kingdoms,… — Eleanor of Aquitaine Copy Share Image
“for in proportion as the enemy despair of conquest, they will be trying the arts of seduction and the force of fear by all… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There was an aura about King that was unforgettable. I seem him now in my mind's eye: collected, peaceful, calm. He was in his… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
“War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.” — Dana Kramer-Rolls Copy Share Image
“it seems to me that this kind of hero—privileged, self-assured, the perpetual heir to the kingdom, and not averse to violence—has been and continues… — David Elliott Copy Share Image
“Since it is so likely that they will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage… Let… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Soothing touch, whether it be applied to a ruffled cat, a crying infant, or a frightened child, has a universally recognized power to ameliorate… — Deane Juhan Copy Share Image
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you. — CJ Roberts Copy Share Image
“Ivy waved the wet handkerchief, as much as to say, words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be.… — Abd al-Karim Qasim Copy Share Image
