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"You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince." »American Proverb
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"If the prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place." »Aldous Huxley
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"A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper." »Adelle Davis
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"A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"No prince, how great soever, begets his predecessors, and the noblest rivers are not navigable to the fountain." »A Marvell
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"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince." »Plato
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"Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest" »William Shakespeare
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"Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!" »William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
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"searching for the guy that can take my breath away looking for the prince that save me, and take me on his horse in search of my romeo that will rather die than live without me triying to find the edward that will die for me finding out that him the guy will never come to me if I keep dreaming like this" »Fer
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"Knowledge acquired by a man of low degree places him on a level with a prince, as a small river attains the irremeable ocean; and his fortune is then exalted." »The Hitopadesa
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"Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?" »Benjamin Franklin
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"prince Akeem Oh, it was a most amazing game. The Giants of New York took on the Packers of Green Bay. The Giants triumphed by kicking a pigskin ball through a big H. A most ripping victory. Cleo McDowell Son... I'm just going to tell you this one time. If you want to keep working here, stay off the drugs." »Coming to America
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"At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen, prince You should have fear'd, what now you feelAchilles absent was Achilles stillYet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid." »Homer
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"If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has." »Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has." »Confucius
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"This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind. . . . ." »Phylos the Tibetan
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"So as a prince is forced to know how to act like a beast, he must learn from the fox and the lion; becouse the lion is defenceless against traps and the fox is defenceless against wolves. Therefore one must be a fox in order to recognise traps and lion to frighten off wolves." »Niccollo Machavelli, The Prince.
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