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All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Here lies our mutton-looking king, Whose word no man relied on, Who never said a foolish thing ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54528<![CDATA[Here lies our sovereign lord, the king, Whose word no man relives on, Who never said a foolish thing, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54529<![CDATA[A merry monarch, scandalous and poor. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54530<![CDATA[Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped--to gird An English sovereign's brow! and to the throne Whereon he sits! ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54531<![CDATA[A partial world will list to my lays, While Anna reigns, and sets a female name Unrival'd in the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54532<![CDATA[A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54533<![CDATA[Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54535<![CDATA[Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54536<![CDATA[A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54520<![CDATA[Hener was the hero-king, Heaven-born, dear to us, Showing his shield A shelter for peace. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54521<![CDATA[In that fierce light which beats upon a throne. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54522<![CDATA[Broad-based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54523<![CDATA[Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54524<![CDATA[The king reigns but does not govern. [Fr., Le roi regne, il ne gouverne pas.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54525<![CDATA[All kings is mostly rapscallions. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54526<![CDATA[The first king was a successful soldier; He who serves well his country has no need of ancestors. [Fr., ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54527<![CDATA[For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings! How ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54514<![CDATA[Yet looks he like a king. Behold, his eye, As bright as is the eagle's lightens forth Controlling majesty. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54515<![CDATA[I give this heavy weight from off my head And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand, The pride of ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54516<![CDATA[Why, our battalia trebles that account: Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength, Which they upon the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54517<![CDATA[Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54518<![CDATA[Hail, glorious edifice, stupendous work! God bless the Regent, and the Duke of York. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54519<![CDATA[We will ourself in person to this war; And, for our coffers, with too great a court And liberal ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54513<![CDATA[A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state Empties itself, as ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54512<![CDATA[At length her grace rose and with modest paces Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like Cast ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54509<![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54510<![CDATA[The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness, Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54511<![CDATA[The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy. [Lat., Ars prima regni posse te invidiam ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54500<![CDATA[The throne of another is not stable for thee. [Lat., Alieno in loco Haud stabile regnum est.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54501<![CDATA[Every monarch is subject to a mightier one. [Lat., Omnes sub regno graviore regnum est.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54502<![CDATA[His legs bestrid the ocean: his reared arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied As all the tuned ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54503<![CDATA[The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through And keep their impious turbans on ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54504<![CDATA[There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54505<![CDATA[And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54506<![CDATA[Ay, every inch a king. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54507<![CDATA[O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors! There is betwixt that smile we would ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54508<![CDATA[What is a king? a man condemn'd to bear The public burthen of the nation's care. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54494<![CDATA[To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54495<![CDATA[Der Kaiser of dis Faderland, Und Gott on high all dings commands, We two--ach! Don't you understand? ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54496<![CDATA[When kings are building, draymen have something to do. [Ger., Wenn die Konige bau'n, haben die Karrner zu thun.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54497<![CDATA[For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54498<![CDATA[O Richard! O my king! The universe forsakes thee! ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54499<![CDATA[In good King Charles's golden days When royalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54489<![CDATA[Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54490<![CDATA[It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54491<![CDATA[The King is dead! Long live the King! ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54492<![CDATA[But all's to no end, for the time will not mend Till the King enjoys his own again. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54493<![CDATA[His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54485<![CDATA['Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. - Michael Eyquen ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54486<![CDATA[A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To bear the miseries of ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54487