Wise Kings Quotes

#1. Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Diogenes

#3. But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.

William Cowper

#4. War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

William Cowper

#5. But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.

Gautama Buddha

#6. The King did what all wise husbands do. He did as he was told.

Toby Forward

#7. It is the LORD, who changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning....So, get over it! (ref. Daniel 2:21).

Josephine Akhagbeme

#8. Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.

Alexander Pope

#9. Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.

Oliver Goldsmith

#10. Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

Joseph Joubert

#11. I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like Charlemagne in all his glory.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.

Vinoba Bhave

#13. Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

Horace

#14. The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.

Saadi

#15. Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives
but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it.

Robert A. Heinlein

#16. In an old time
there was a king as wise as a dictionary.

Anne Sexton

#17. He was born a King. The wise men came from the East and asked, 'Where is He that is born King of the Jews?' (Matthew 2:2). He died a King.
In Greek, in Latin, and in Hebrew the description was written above His cross, 'This is Jesus, The King' (Matthew 27:37)

W. A. Criswell

#18. Once in Persia reigned a king
Who upon his signet ring
Graved a maxim true and wise,
Which if held before the eyes
Gave him counsel at a glance
Fit for every change and chance.
Solemn words, and these are they:
"Even this shall pass away."

Theodore Tilton

#19. And now O kings, be ye wise. Be admonished, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son lest He grow angry, and ye perish in the way for His wrath may quickly kindle.

Kouta Hirano

#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. Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Alexander Pope

#22. We are born as princes, and we die as kings, but in between, we are simply men." - - King Errick Wise

Amanda Sebring

#23. The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. There was never a time when you and I and all the kings gathered here have not existed and nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist.

Anonymous

#24. Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

Hilaire Belloc

#25. 'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'

Dorothea Dix

#26. Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.

Thomas Sydenham

#27. Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#28. A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

Maimonides

#29. My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery.

Alvin Lee

#30. You can party, but I better not catch you drunk. (Wulf) (Chris rolled his eyes, then bent down to said to Cassandra's stomach ... ) Be wise, little guy, stay in there where Lord King Neurotic can't kill all your fun. (Chris)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#31. King of Kings; my rock, my refuge!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

Charles Spurgeon