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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Women, like princes, find few real friends.

Lord Lyttelton

The labor force is a problem. The concept of service is one that is difficult at best, and the Chinese one-child policy is one that has very successfully bred a line of princes and princesses. From the moment they're born, they're spoiled.

Michael Monks

She came into that marriage a damaged individual. She desperately needed love and security and needed to be the center of the prince's attention. He was a man who lacked confidence, who needed love, needed assurance. He didn't know where he was going in his life. Neither could provide what the other needed.

Penny Junor

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

Henry Newbolt

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

Francis I

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

Jean de La Fontaine

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

Eric Berne

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.

John Berger

Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade: A breath can make them, as a breath has made; but a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied.

Oliver Goldsmith

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.

Ben Jonson

I think the two princes probably are quite different in temperament. But they're close to each other. They're very close to their father.

Charles Anson

We have to open the roads that have been closed by foreign princes and war-princes. The issue of security is the same for Afghans as for members of embassies. I am not convinced that security is solved by closing roads.

Ramazan Bashardost

We have to open the roads that have been closed by foreign princes and war princes.

Ramazan Bashardost

These priceless artworks from the collection of their Armory Chamber provide insight into the extraordinary lives of the Moscow princes and tsars of Russia prior to the founding of St. Petersburg in the early 18th century.

Elizabeth Herridge