Kings

Famous quotes containing the word kings:

    “It is, said Gargantua, as Plato said ... that republics will be happy when kings philosophize or philosophers reign.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    “I give you a wise and discerning mind; no one like you has been before you and no one like you shall arise after you.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 3:12.

    “Why should kings and nobles have
    Pictured trophies to their grave,
    And we, churls, to thee deny
    Thy pretty toys with thee to lie—
    A more harmless vanity?”
    —Charles Lamb (1775–1834)