[ king Quotes ]

Showing search results for King Quotes - 581 quotes about king - Dictionary Quotes

581 quotes

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
Example
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 742 votes

Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
Humankind
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 620 votes

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
Age and Aging
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 663 votes

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.
Money
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 528 votes

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Family
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 534 votes

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
Plagiarism
George Moore

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 712 votes

The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.
Leaders and Leadership
Motto

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 681 votes

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Philosophers and Philosophy
Iris Murdoch

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 683 votes

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Prejudice
Edward R. Murrow

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 704 votes

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
Thrift
Ogden Nash

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 692 votes

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
Optimism
George Jean Nathan

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 718 votes

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.
Ideas
George Nelson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 589 votes

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Tact and Tactfulness
Howard W. Newton

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 618 votes

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.
Expectation
Giovanni Niccolini

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 680 votes

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Walking
Friedrich Nietzsche

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 702 votes

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Success
Earl Nightingale

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 499 votes

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.
Fear
James Northcote

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 589 votes

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Dreams
Novalis

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 575 votes

They spend their time looking forward to the past.
Past
John Osborne

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 539 votes

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
Improvement
John Ousterhout

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 740 votes

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
Aid and Assistance
Ovid

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 611 votes

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
Confidence
Ovid

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 601 votes

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Thoughts and Thinking
Thomas Paine

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 687 votes

Thinking is heavily endorsed.
Thoughts and Thinking
Mal Pancoast

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 581 votes

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
Wit
Dorothy Parker

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 636 votes

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun