Best mankind & kings Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.”

Action Mankind Kings Court Ridiculous Officers Household Amusement Decree Utterance Jester

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.”

Ends Mankind Wind Kings Ruins Desert

Book:Works

Source: Works

“I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!”

“When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.”

Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

“I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule is the spade I hold: Come they from cottage or come they from hall, Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all! Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin I gather them in, I gather them in!”

Pleasure Subjects Mankind Cold Kings Halls Thrones Monument Marble Cottages Spades Slabs

Author:Benjamin

“I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.”

Feels May Desire Mankind Kings Mass Extremes Length Beggar Ardent

Book:Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait

Source: Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait

“The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men, for a' that!”

Men Poor Mankind Honest Honesty Kings Honest Man Sae

Author:Robert Burns

“It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of man, as divinely ordained, as it is to teach all mankind to bow down to the authority of kings and Popes, as divinely ordained.”

Men States Home Government Teach Mankind Kings Authority Bows Submit Pope

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive face of nature herself--by his incomparable talent for searching out and embracing what is false, and for overlooking and denying what is true.”

Men Faces Animal Mankind Talent Kings Excellence Cosmos Delusion Deceived Incomparable True Man Dupes Overlooking

Book:Prejudices: Third Series

Source: Prejudices: Third Series

“Set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and domestic tyrants and usurpers, against arbitrary kings and cruel priests; in short against the gates of earth and hell.”

Earth Hell Rights Mankind Kings British Priests Gates Tyrants Ancestor Inherent Arbitrary Usurpers

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“One person told me that Christians believe in a king. We believe in a King Jesus who oversees the affairs of mankind. Maybe we're reaching for an earthly king.”

Believe Persons Christian Jesus Mankind Kings Affair Reaching

Author:Max Lucado

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”

“They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.”

Ifs Men Humans Hate Humanity Speak Nations Effort Race Class Middle Mankind Strange Kings Despair Soldier Curious Middle Class Priests Adore Distrust Humane Sailor Dividing Working Man

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.”

World War Age Mankind Pride Kings Consequence Scripture Confusion No War Chronology

Book:The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

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