Pastoral Resources

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

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

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

For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of 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.

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

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

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.

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

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