Kings

(237 votes)   He that can work is born to be king of something.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(222 votes)   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 way they're raised.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(209 votes)   The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.

Ashurnasirpal

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(206 votes)   The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(204 votes)   Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(130 votes)   He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(129 votes)   Kings have many ears and eyes.

Proverbs

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(126 votes)   If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(123 votes)   Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

John Dryden
1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic

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(119 votes)   They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.

(Frederick II) Frederick The Great
1712-1786, Born in Berlin, King of Prussia (1740-1786),

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(116 votes)   Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.

Pope Gregory VII

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(115 votes)   Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

(Frederick II) Frederick The Great
1712-1786, Born in Berlin, King of Prussia (1740-1786),

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(102 votes)   A king should die on his feet.

Louis XVIII
1755-1824, King of France

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(98 votes)   Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

Charles James Fox
1749-1806, British Statesman, Foreign Secretary

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(93 votes)   I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.

Edward VII

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