Beggar King Quotes

#1. A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

R. Scott Bakker

#2. A righteous beggar is better than a proud king.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases ...

Jimmy Buffett

#4. I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#5. Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.

David Mitchell

#6. You know your real nature [to be divine]. You are the king and play you are a beggar ... It is all fun. Know it and play. That is all there is to it. Then practice it. The whole universe is a vast play.

Swami Vivekananda

#7. Thai culture, while rare in its distrust of thinking, is not unique. The Inuit frown upon thinking. It indicates someone is either crazy or fiercely stubborn, neither of which is desirable.

Eric Weiner

#8. What you powerfully hold
In your thought-world
Will make you either
A street beggar
Or a great king.

Sri Chinmoy

#9. now-and-then praying doesn't do that. It is the

Stormie O'martian

#10. I'll be any man you want. A king or a beggar or a farmer or a killer. But I'll never be the man who can let you walk away.

Kit Rocha

#11. You may not be able to change the events of your history, but you can change the story you've attached to those events.

Amy Chan

#12. To me there is no difference whether president, beggar, or king.

Dalai Lama

#13. She held my face in her hands as if I was the treasure.

Kelly Moran

#14. I think little of pen and ink in revolutions.

Oscar Wilde

#15. Half of the interview is substantive and half of it I think is sizing the person up.

Jeb Bush

#16. I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.

John Lydon

#17. I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .

R.S. Thomas

#18. A beggar who goes fishing may use a worm which has feasted on a king as his bait. And the fisherman may eat the fish caught with that bait. What does this tells us? Well, it tells us that a king may progress through the guts of a pauper.

John Marsden

#19. Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table: that's the end.

William Shakespeare

#20. Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.

Jacoby Shaddix

#21. Bullshit," says Viv. "Did you have your eyes open the other night in the pub? Mabe, I've never, ever seen him so happy and the way he was looking at you made even me melt. He's in love with you."
"No, he isn't."
"Yes, he is. It's just unfortunate that he's a fuckwit as well.

Lily Morton

#22. A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar.

L. S. Lowry

#23. I've never looked through his stuff and I can't explain exactly why it is I'm so incurious. I suppose there are clues about his life there in the shut-up-and-locked room, perhaps even some traces of my mother, but better to be content with ignorance, I've always thought, than haunted by the truth.

Sara Baume

#24. For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

William Gurnall

#25. I'd rather live like a beggar in my own country, than like a king in a foreign land.

R.L. Bartram

#26. Screening is an invaluable part of the process, obviously, having test screening and you definitely learn something.

Bryan Burk

#27. Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!

William Shakespeare

#28. I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie 'Hoosiers.' That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs.

Mary Meeker

#29. The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#30. True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#31. No more than he knew that the Beggar King would die young, or that Khal Drogo would follow him into the grave. Very little of what the fat man has anticipated has come to pass.

George R R Martin

#32. From the king
To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants;
And you must grant, the slavery is less
To study to please one, than many.

Philip Massinger

#33. It's such a silly little thing, the heart.

Ned Vizzini