Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

A king should die on his feet.

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."

His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey.

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.