Kings

Famous quotes containing the word kings:

“One who puts on armor should not brag like one who takes it off.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 20:11.

“Surely he is a god; either he is meditating, or he has wandered away, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 18:27.

Elijah mocking worshipers of Ba’al.

“I am the very pattern of a modern Major-Gineral,
I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral;
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical,
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)