Quotes of Crown - somelinesforyou

“ A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns. ”

- John Milton

“ The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ”

- Robert Maynard Pirsig

“ My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. ”

- Jackie Chan

“ Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters. ”

- George Cooper

“ It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive. ”

- Bertolt Brecht

“ The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.". ”

- Nancy Barcus

“ At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ Superstition, the mother of those hideous twins, fear and faith, from her throne of skulls, still rules the world. ”

- Robert G. Ingersoll

“ Earned with the sweat of my brows. ”

- Cervantes

“ The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ To seek a laurel wreath from a bride-cake. ”

- George Chapman

“ Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped — to gird An English sovereign's brow! and to the throne Whereon he sits! whose deep foundations lie In veneration and the people's love. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit; For 'tis a throne where honor may be crowned Sole monarch of the universal earth. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings. ”

- Daniel Defoe

“ My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”

- Ralph Nader

“ Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. ”

- Bible

“ No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. ”

- William Penn

“ The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race. ”

- Dio Lewis

“ If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all. ”

- Francois Fenelon

“ Reason is God's crowning gift to man. ”

- Sophocles

“ No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. ”

- Saint Jerome

“ Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. ”

- Albert Camus

“ The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. ”

- Edward Chapin

“ The hoary head is a crown of glory. ”

- Bible

“ A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. ”

- Pearl Bailey

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

- Lord Alfred Tennyson
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