Kings

Famous quotes containing the word kings:

    To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David...
    Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 12:16.

    History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    ...that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it.
    Bible: Hebrew, 2 Kings 18:21.