Crowns Quotes - Page 5

In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is that it protects the perineum from injury, a protection accomplished by slicing through perineal skin, connective, tissue, and muscle.

Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.

He that hath no cross deserves no crown.

If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the crown.

There are no crown princes at Ford.

When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

The Lord has many lovers of His crown but few lovers of His Cross.

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian, one must take up his cross, with all of its difficulties and agonizing and tragedy-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its marks upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering.

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

The last act crowns the play.

All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head

The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]

The hand that wields the knife shall never wear the crown.

ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way.

I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." - I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

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

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!