King of Prussia

Famous quotes containing the words king of, king and/or prussia:

    Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting
    doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
    Bible: Hebrew Psalm XXIV (l. XXIV, 7)

    I am as unfit for any practical purpose—I mean for the furtherance of the world’s ends—as gossamer for ship-timber; and I, who am going to be a pencil-maker to-morrow, can sympathize with God Apollo, who served King Admetus for a while on earth.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Austria the shield and Prussia the sword!” Too bad that they are attached to the wrong arm: The right one holds the defiantly glistening shield, and the left one is supposed to wield the sword.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)