King

Famous quotes containing the word king:

    “Pastime with good company
    I love and shall, until I die.
    Grudge who list, but none deny!
    So God be pleased, thus live will I.”
    —Henry VIII, King Of England (1491-1547)

    “An illiterate king is a crowned ass.”
    —Medieval English proverb.

    Said by the chronicler William of Malmesbury to have been much used by King Henry I of England (1068-1135)

    “I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.”
    —Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)