Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Erskine

That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey

Portuguese Proverb

I would rather have a donkey that takes me there than a horse that will not fare.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.

Jason Smith

They used to have horses and donkeys in the parade.

Irish Proverb

The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey

Dutch Proverb

A donkey usually does not hit his foot twice to the same stone.

African Proverbs

A donkey knows no gratitude. - (Knappert, p. 138, Swahili)

Charles Spurgeon

Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat

Thomas Fuller

Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.

John Hawkins

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.

Alexander Hamilton

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing

Steve Relford

Stephen King couldn't come up with a monster worse than this guy,

Beeban Kidron

We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

B. B. King

I'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other ... I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.

B. B. King

I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!

B. B. King

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

Surya Thapa

We now have a single theme -- the king should go back to his constitutional role.

Big Sean

I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. That's why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that.

Big Sean

I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am.

C. S. Lewis

Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.