Emperor Quotes - Page 2

• Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

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• Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Our life is what our thoughts make it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• It becomes an emperor to die standing.

  Vespasian

  Standing, Dies

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• Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Buried, Beggar, Beggary

  "La Matrone d'Ephèse", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 64-65, 1922.

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• The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

  Wallace Stevens

  Food, Ice Cream, Cooking

  "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" l. 7 (1923)

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• I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.

  Qin Shi Huang

  Generations, Lines, Ends

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• I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

  Bao ?ai

  Country, Independent, Citizens

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• The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Finest, Spoiled, Should

  Bertolt Brecht (1963). “Plays”

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• Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

  Charles V of France

  Peace, War, Names

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• The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

  Julius Evola

  Men, Doe, Slave

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• No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, Power

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• He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Knowledge, Purple, Belief

  Many Inventions "The Finest Story in the World" (1893)

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• Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.

  Vespasian

  Believe, Feet, Becoming

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• There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Dark, Clothes, People

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• Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.

  Clark Ashton Smith

  Dream, Bows

  Clark Ashton Smith (2011). “The Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Filial obedience is the first and greatest requisite of a state; by this we become good subjects to our emperors, capable of behaving with just subordination to our superiors, and grateful dependents on heaven; by this we become fonder of marriage, in order to be capable of exacting obedience from others in our turn; by this we become good magistrates, for early submission is the truest lesson to those who would learn to rule. By this the whole state may be said to resemble one family.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Grateful, Order, Heaven

  Oliver Goldsmith (1857). “Miscellaneous Works Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected by James Prior”, p.176

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• I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Kings, Sorry

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year With Aslan: Words of Wisdom and Reflection from the Chronicles of Narnia”, p.3, HarperCollins UK

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• A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Moving, Men

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.5021, e-artnow

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• I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Inspiring, Sight, Three

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• I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

  Lord Byron

  Funny, Military, Humorous

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• Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.

  Guru Nanak

  Kings, Ocean, Mountain

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• Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independence, Genius, Retainers

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.

  Billy Sunday

  Mother, Kings, President

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

  Alfred de Musset

  Christianity, Ruined, Saved

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