Frederick I Of Prussia Quotes

#1. King Frederick I of Prussia conceived the Amber Chamber in 1701 as a magnificent gift to the Russian royal family that would seal the alliance between the two powers.

Stephen Kinzer

#2. Mothers of today have no greater opportunity and no more serious challenge than to do all they can to strengthen the home.

L. Tom Perry

#3. How can you not respect somebody like me? If you don't respect me, it's because you got hatin' all over you. If you don't like me, you don't like yourself.

Keyshawn Johnson

#4. Activity does not necessarily equal progress.

Johnny G

#5. For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.

Kelly Miller

#6. The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so spoilt, so taken with the very act of living that they don't remember long.

Natsuo Kirino

#7. What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.

Arjuna Ardagh

#8. If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.

Frederick The Great

#9. Our work is to present things that are as they are.

Frederick The Great

#10. I only wear suits to funerals and I only cash checks when the bank is about to take the house.
from surely he's dead by now

K.R. Albers

#11. We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills.

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

#12. I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearing the seagulls, it had a real calming effect. But also, it was a mysterious thing - I remember wondering what was under those dark New England seas.

Brian Skerry

#13. That in East Prussia Frederick William I tolerated the Mennonites as indispensable to industry,

Max Weber

#14. In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.

Frederick The Great