Crowns Quotes - Page 7

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ's sufferings!

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.

The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times.

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.

Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous step backwards--a step that has been responsible for more human misery than any other idea in known history.

The only crown Jesus ever wore on earth was a crown of thorns.

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false

Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.

It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.

O Beginningless, Immortal, Timeless, Incomprehensible and Unimaginable Lord, the God of all and Creator of all creation, the Foreseer and Savior of all, as I have hoped in You, I thank You, that You have brought me to this hour, as I approach the crown of Your righteousness.

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?

Obedience is the Christian's crown.

I had to face within myself all the things I didn't do and wasn't while I was wearing my own crown.

Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition.... [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem... send it to me, and my fiat shall crown you with immortality.

I don't know if I was a poseur - I really did love metal, always - but I gave a lot of other things a chance. I wanted to meet, um, girls, so I would check out Depeche Mode. But mostly I wanted stuff with pentagrams and crowns of thorns on it.

Some of us want the crown before the cross.

A person's own definition of leadership defines the glittering crown of his leadership.

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.