Louis Ix Quotes

#1. Impunity in such affairs was no longer a matter of course, for the King was Louis IX, a sovereign whose sense of rulership was equal to his piety.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#2. We have reason to believe that when, during the crusades, Europe at last began to establish hospitals, they were inspired by the Arabs of near East ... The first hospital in Paris, Les Quinze-vingt, was founded by Louis IX after his return from the crusade 1254-1260.

George Sarton

#3. In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

Karen Maitland

#4. Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books

Robert Benchley

#5. Lust is Only skin deep.

Joshua Wisenbaker

#6. For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling vaguely guilty.

William S. Burroughs

#7. I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those people where they go, 'Oh, isn't she dead?' And then I walk up, and they're like, 'Whoa.' I can't really complain ... because I've made myself into a historical action figure. I was like, 'Yeah, come on in!'

Kathleen Hanna

#8. Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

Cullen Hightower

#9. In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him.

Louis IX Of France

#10. Reviewing our fight, I asked Janco, Why do you rhyme when you fight?

Maria V. Snyder

#11. I went in with Jack and Leslie, into this room that was lined with brick, and there on the side I can remember very clearly was this small model with plates for the bases - the original model with everything screwed together.

Sydney Brenner

#12. Ky's story, bit by bit, is turning to ash and nothing. Except. He remembers it, and now I do, too.

Ally Condie

#13. I'm absolutely terrified that people can get into cars. It's like the car is a face, and the headlight is eyes, and when you open the car door it's like you're climbing into the ears. (I cannot) be inside a giant rolling robot head.

Thom Yorke

#14. I could never seem to make the people I love understand what I need. I don't know why.

Nora Roberts

#15. Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.

Marcus Aurelius