Crowns Quotes - Page 14

• Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mean, Twelve, Dinner

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• T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle,
  And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

  Joseph Addison

  Rocks, Liberty, Mountain

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.37

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• Many a crown
  Covers bald foreheads.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Royalty, Foreheads

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.332

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• We are slumberous poppies,
  Lords of Lethe downs,
  Some awake and some asleep,
  Sleeping in our crowns.
  What perchance our dreams may know,
  Let our serious may know.

  Leigh Hunt

  Dream, Sleep, Serious

  Leigh Hunt (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated)”, p.329, Delphi Classics

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• A pretty woman's worth some pains to see,
  Nor is she spoiled, I take it, if a crown
  Completes the forehead pale and tresses pure.

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Women, Pretty Woman

  Robert Browning (1863). “Paracelsus. Pippa passes. King Victor and King Charles. Colombe's birthday”, p.316

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• The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Flower, Simplicity, Innocence

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• Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

  Juvenal

  Bears, Different, Crime

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, Satires, XIII, line 103, 1922.

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• What if thou be saint or sinner,
  Crooked gray-beard, straight beginner,--
  Empty paunch, or jolly dinner,
  When Death thee shall call.
  All like are rich or richer,
  King with crown, and cross-legged stitcher,
  When the grave hides all.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Death, Kings, What If

  RICHARD WATSON GILDER (1885). “LYRICS AND OTHER POEMS,”

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• All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.

  William Shakespeare

  Ends, Renown, Fine

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton”, p.159

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• And finally, there's the seventh doorway, the Doorway of Oneness, which corresponds to the crown center, located at the top of the head. This doorway has to do with feeling whole and connected to all of life, connected to spirit

  Marci Shimoff

  Oneness, Feelings, Doorways

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.

  Max Planck

  God, Science, Views

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.97, Open Road Media

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• Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Cutting, Army, Paris

  Napoleon Bonaparte, D. A. Bingham (2010). “A Selection from the Letters and Despatches of the First Napoleon: With Explanatory Notes”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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• There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation. That interpretation has come at the expense of the one that says when God, in the story of Noah, intervened to save human life against the flood, against the acts of nature, He did not stop with human beings. He made sure that every kind of animal was represented twice on that ark.

  Bill Moyers

  Animal, Men, Ark

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• When earth as if on evil dreams Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams From the red disc of Mars, His fame, who led the stormy van Of battle, well may cease; But never that which crowns the man Whose victory was peace.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Dream, War, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.411

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• The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could ‘most talent’ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Age, Determined, Talent

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• Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.

  John Dryden

  Spring, Hands, Mind

  John Dryden (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir”, p.186

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• If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell; Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life's fresh crown Only a rose-leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rung the bell, What would you buy?

  Thomas Lovell Beddoes

  Dream, Light, Rose

  'Dream-Pedlary'

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• Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Gratitude, Love Is, Axes

  Friedrich Schiller (2017). “Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller”, p.20, Litres

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• Satan is ever present, trying to destroy our glory and remove our crown. One of his most powerful tools is discouragement. Don't let your discouragement make Satan rejoice.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Powerful, Trying, Tools

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• I love Texans. And Texas is clearly the crown jewel of Super Tuesday.

  Ted Cruz

  Texas, Jewels, Tuesday

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire.

  Julia Child

  Taken, Beef, World

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• Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Grateful, Sleep

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.141

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• I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.

  Bayard Taylor

  Beautiful, Eye, Hands

  Bayard Taylor (1855). “The Lands of the Saracen: Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain”, p.154

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• The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory

  John Fletcher

  Justice, Heaven, Mercy

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1812). “Works: With and Introd. and Explanatory Notes By Henry Weber”, p.479

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• Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.

  Anita Brookner

  Life, Play, Thorns

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