King Beggar Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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

William Shakespeare

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

R.L. Bartram

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

William Gurnall

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

L. S. Lowry

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

Jacoby Shaddix

#11. 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

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

Dalai Lama

#13. 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

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

Sri Chinmoy

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. 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