Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
Michel de Montaigne
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Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
Michel de Montaigne
He'll mention the fact that the federal government didn't talk about post-secondary education in the throne speech.
Darrell Dexter
HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing. So The tax-collectors in a row Appeared before the throne to pray .
Ambrose Bierce
They had 'The Godfather' theme, like 'I'm coming back to take the throne. This is mine and I'm taking it back.' They had their game faces on. The Quad was very precise. I thought they were creative.
Patricia Roberts
Hopkins gives us this feel good story of how he's going to walk away from the boxing game, riding out on his throne.
Antonio Tarver
A driver is a king on a vinyl bucket-seat throne, changing direction with the turn of a wheel, changing the climate with a flick of the button, changing the music with the switch of a dial.
Andrew H. Malcolm
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
George Clemenceau
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Francesco Petrarch
And no, we have no obligation to come to Chicago, kneel before your throne and beg to freely exercise the rights that so many before us have died for. To be honest, Mr. Mayor, I think Chicago would be a much better place if you spent less time in front of the cameras and more time behind your desk.
Richard Pearson
All passes. Art alone/ Enduring stays to us;/ The bust outlasts the throne.
Austin Dobson
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
Maximilien Robespierre
This case is about politics, political opinion and the role of the heir to the throne in relation to these issues.
Mark Warby
Alvin came over to me and I said 'I'm taking over your throne. I just want to continue to do it. You don't know how long you're going to play.
Morris Peterson
We wanted to emphasize his humanity. After all, this was a 9-year-old kid who came to the throne at the most turbulent time that we know about in terms of religion, in terms of philosophy, in terms of art, architecture and language.
David Silverman
His background and knowledge can't be transplanted overnight, ... I'd make a point that unless you sat on the throne, you don't know what it's like to be king. In reality there are a lot of things that you do and people you influence that other people don't see and that impact is there for the city.
Jerry Ryan
As if Misfortune made the throne her seat,/ And none could be unhappy but the great.
Nicholas Rowe
CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty's measures of state policy miscarried conspicuously it was .
Ambrose Bierce
The door opened and it was God himself who walked into the room, straight from the glittering throne, God dressed in a camel's hair polo coat and flat camel's hair cap.
Paul Gallico
It was most of all, safe. There's nothing really that the opposition can get a handle on and hammer the government with in that throne speech.
Craig Oliver
He passed the flaming bounds of space and time: / The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, / Where angels tremble while they gaze, / He saw; but blasted with excess of light, / Closed his eyes in endless night.
Thomas Gray
Google is this era's transformational computing platform and could be about to unseat Microsoft from its throne.
Stephen Arnold
There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.
William Pitt The Elder
He wanted to be famous. And these older artists were in the way. Beuys was the closest thing there was to a god in Germany then. And you have to kill the king to get to the throne.
Michel Würthle
INTERREGNUM, n. The period during which a monarchical country is governed by a warm spot on the cushion of the throne. The experiment of letting the spot grow cold has commonly been attended by most unhappy results from the zeal of many worthy persons to make it warm again.
Ambrose Bierce
They're clearly the best team in our conference right now. They have taken the throne, in my opinion, from [defending champion Old Dominion]. They just have such great balance. They've got shooters, they've got quickness, they've got strength inside.
Pat Kennedy
Caboose, cabin car, crummy, way car, van, ape cage, throne room, hack, buggy, the office, shanty, monkey house, bedbug haven-American railroaders have known the last car on a freight train by all these names and more, and often as an ever-so-humble home.
Donald Dale Jackson
The climax was when the golden stool was brought in, which represents the Ashanti soul and is believed to have descended from heaven 200 years ago. This stool is so precious, it's a throne that no individual can sit on. This was paraded in for the first time in 25 years and was placed on its own throne and presented for one day only to the public.
Carol Beckwith
FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. A king there was who lost an eye In some excess of passion; And straight his courtiers all did try To follow the new fashion. Each dropped one eyelid when before The throne he ventured, thinking 'Twould please the king. That monarch swore He'd slay them all for winking. What should they.
Ambrose Bierce
You stand before the Lord to determine your final destination. It's very symbolic in that you will have the heaven and hell sides. The characters come out and stand before the throne of judgement, where they're held accountable for their actions. It's quite a moving scene.
Scarlett Knight
I did see some things that were missing in this throne speech. I didn't hear anything about health care, probably the number one issue that I heard in my travels around the province. I didn't hear anything about affordability for tuition for students in this throne speech.
Carole James
If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.
Roland Allen
By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort than a day's or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most.
John Newton
A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.
William Pitt The Younger
It's something they've never tried on with the British media, ... There's been quite an effort, and it's a question of who's doing whom a favor, to be honest - whether it's the Americans doing the royals and the British tourism industry a favor, or whether we're doing you a favor by sending you the heir to our throne.
Stephen Bates
King Sihanouk was an absolute monarch in the 1940s and 1950s. No one could publicly disagree with anything the king said. In the throne room, even ministers had to approach the king on their hands and knees because everyone's head had to be below the level of the king's feet.
Philip Short
We will not ask the king to leave the throne ? we will go and take the throne and put it on display.
Gagan Thapa
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