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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thomas Jefferson

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

William Shakespeare

The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.

Herodotus

All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.

Dale Carnegie

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Caesar was frightening to be around ... if ever anyone was born to be a king, he was. But they (the Romans) had an ancestral fear of kings, similar to the American fear to a degree ? pride in their liberty.

Bruno Heller

We can treat our patients like kings and queens.

Randy Le

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

Ted Koppel

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

Terry Pratchett

One of the things we wanted to accomplish at district was to be able to compete with King's, and I feel we accomplished that.

Curt Dehaan

We want another chance at them. When coach saw the draw, the first thing he said was that it would be nice to get another shot at King's.

Dan Skillman

If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me! Governor of Texas (circa 1920).

Ma Ferguson

Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

Charles James Fox

Golf is a game kings and presidents play when they get tired of running countries.

Charles Price

If someone calls from a cell and says, ?I?m on King?s,? you?re out of luck.

Jim Johnson

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

Peter Abrahams

Conquering kings their titles take / From the foes they captive make: / Jesus, by a nobler deed,/ From the thousands He hath freed.

John Chandler

There were a bunch of us who sat around in a common room here at King's and it was interesting to see yourself on TV.

Paul Mcleod

He had a lot of hats. But, in all his jobs, his number one interest was always what was best for Kings Park.

Charles Gardner

This cache is important because it will tell us what the Valley of the Kings was really like.

Mansour Bouriak

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

Charles Davenport

This interest was later reinforced when Baker and her husband moved to Kings Point in 1993.

Vincent Delisi

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

Robert Bolt

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

William Morris

The kings are all over the place in the Gulf. They're catching them from Boca Grande Pass out to 8 miles.

Robert Lugiewicz

And there was always a bevy of up-and-coming photographers sitting in Orange Julius in the King's Road.

Rachel Ward

It merely entrenches the king's power, allowing him to approve or veto all laws.

Mario Masuku

Dr. King's legacy is as sound as a rock.

Tyrone Brooks

He sounded like he was into it, like he felt Dr. King's spirit 00017and what Dr. King was all about.

Alsamar Douglas

Not that we didn't already have an excellent working relationship with Kings Bay, but we have an even better working relationship with our naval facility here.

Bob Noble

You realize that could happen on King's Road in West London, with that courier driving too fast.

William Boyd

It was about the king's 60-year rule. It was the world's biggest mass free fall.

Kevin Gibson

The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless.

Maxwell L. Anderson

We've gotten a lot more people involved (since King's injury). Their roles changed. I knew they all had it in them.

Ladreda Akins

We had white and black participants and Republicans and Democrats. Dr. King's dream is about 70 percent completed. We've got 30 percent to go.

Rep Alvin Holmes

So you can end up with lots of endemics in a small area. That's what appears to have happened in Sequoia and King's Canyon.

Jean Krejca

It clearly proves the Valley of the Kings is still not exhausted.

Kent Weeks

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

Guru Nanak

Somebody should wave these numbers under Mervyn King's eyes.

Rob Carnell

We just protected the lane. Fortunately, (the Kings) didn't make any jump shots ? that would've changed everything.

Gary Rath

We celebrate very differently. We bring toys for all the kids (on Three Kings Day).

Felipe Garcia

Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Sidney Madwed

[Quinn portrayed characters including kings, Indians, a pope, a boxer and an artist.] I never get the girl, ... I wind up with a country instead.

Anthony Quinn

In Puerto Rico the grass is for the kings' horses. Obviously we don't have camels on the island.

Antonio Rodriguez

I'm really not the bling king, ... I'm the No. 1 supplier and designer for bling kings.

Jacob Arabo

Jerusalem is the city where Jewish kings are buried, and not Arab terrorists.

Yosef Lapid

Just like Kings Island has to have a new ride every year or so, we need to have a new thing.

Fred Glass

It could be the tomb of a king's wife or son, or of a priest or court official.

Kent Weeks

It's an honor to be playing and representing our community and our school on Dr. King's birthday.

Ray Willis

Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital.

Andrew Mccarthy

They (the Kings) are the benchmark for the league, that's something we respect and admire and hope we can duplicate.

Al Westover

Thoughts are funny little things,They can make paupers or make kings.

Sidney Madwed

I don't like the card because I kind of put him on aces or kings.

Kathy Liebert

For I must go where lazy PeaceWill hide her drowsy head;And, for the sport of kings, increaseThe number of the dead.

William Davenant

That's the one thing from Dr. King's speech that we have not done. We have not moved out of the dreaming part to the planning part.

Phillip Jackson

Normally, I'd say a win in the first game is huge, and it is huge. But we still have to come back and win two more games. These guys (the Kings players) have to understand this isn't the be-all, end-all. And if they don't understand it, I'll make them understand.

Fran Riordan

When I was in Mexico we celebrated the tradition of the king's cake on epiphany as well.

Kevin O'brien

I'm going in open minded, just like the King's game.

Evan Walters

And love is love in beggars and in kings.

Sir Edward Dyer