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| A countryman may be as warm in kersey as a king in velvet. | 1 |
| A crown is no cure for the headache. Italian, German, Dutch. | 2 |
| A king is never powerful that hath not power on the sea. Spanish. | 3 |
| A king promises but observes only what he pleases. | 4 |
| A king’s favor is no inheritance. | 5 |
| A king should have neither friends nor relations, needing only slaves. Sicandar of India. | 6 |
| A king without a good counsellor is like a wayfaring man who is blind. | 7 |
| A man ought to be born a king or a fool. Latin. | 8 |
| A noble prince or king never has a coin to bless himself. French. | 9 |
| Accurst the king that casts his purple o’er his vices. Bulwer. | 10 |
| Among the blind a one-eyed man is king. Latin. | 11 |
| An illiterate king is a crowned ass. | 12 |
| As the king, so are his people. Spanish. | 13 |
| Every law is broken to become a king. | 14 |
| Every one is a king in his own house. Portuguese. | 15 |
| General calamities imply in kings general imbecility. | 16 |
| He is half a king who has the king’s good acres. | 17 |
| He that is hated o’ his subjects canna be a king. | 18 |
| He who eats the king’s cow lean, pays for it fat. French, Spanish. | 19 |
| Ill kings make many good laws. | 20 |
| It befits the king to be liberal for he is sure of never falling into poverty. Portuguese. | 21 |
| King Henry robbed the church and died poor. | 22 |
| Kings and bears oft worry their keepers. | 23 |
| Kings are out o’ play. | 24 |
Kings are like stars,—they rise and set; they have
The worship of the world, but no repose. Shelley. | 25 |
| Kings’ entreaties are commands. Dutch. | 26 |
| Kings hae lange ears. | 27 |
| Kings have long arms and many eyes and ears. Italian. | 28 |
| Kings love the treason but not the traitor. | 29 |
| Kings ought to be environed with good will instead of guards. Bias. | 30 |
| Kings ought to be kings in all things. Adrian. | 31 |
| Kings ought to shun the company of the vicious for the evil they commit in his company is accounted his. Plato. | 32 |
| Neck or nothing, for the king loves no cripple. | 33 |
| Neither a log nor a stork, good Jupiter. (Fable of the frogs praying for a king.) | 34 |
| Nice customs courtesy to great kings. Shakespeare. | 35 |
| No king was ever a traitor or pope excommunicated. Spanish. | 36 |
| Robbers take to rocks and precipices for security; for a king there is no such fortress as honor and humanity. Aratus. | 37 |
| “Sail!” quoth the king; “Hold!” saith the wind. | 38 |
| The emperor of Germany is the king of kings; the king of Spain king of men; the king of France king of asses; the king of England king of devils. French. | 39 |
| The greatest king must at last go to bed with a shovel. | 40 |
| The king’s leavings are better than my Lord’s bounty. Don Quixote. | 41 |
| The king cannot always rule as he wishes. | 42 |
| The king goes as far as he can, not so far as he would. Spanish. | 43 |
| The king likes the treachery but not the traitor. Spanish. | 44 |
| The king may bestow offices but cannot bestow wit to manage them. | 45 |
| The king may give the honor but thou art to make thyself honorable. German. | 46 |
The king of France with twenty thousand men,
Marched up the hill and then marched down again. R. Tarleton. | 47 |
| The king of good fellows is appointed for the queen of beggars. | 48 |
| The king (queen) of the bees has no sting. Portuguese. | 49 |
| The king’s chaff is better than other folks’ corn. German. | 50 |
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| The king’s cheese goes half way in parings. | 51 |
| The king’s favor is no inheritance. | 52 |
| The king’s friend is he who tells him the truth. | 53 |
| The last reason of kings. (Motto engraved on a French cannon.) | 54 |
| The subjects’ love is the king’s best guard. | 55 |
| The surest guard of a king is not armies or treasures but friends. Petrarch. | 56 |
The sword of kings
Is the last reason of all things. Butler. | 57 |
| The word of a king ought to be as binding as the oath of a subject. Italian. | 58 |
| The wrath of kings is always dreadful. | 59 |
There’s such divinity doth hedge a king,
That treason can but peep to what it would. Shakespeare. | 60 |
’Tis fate that flings the dice, and as she flings,
Of kings makes peasants and of peasants kings. | 61 |
| To such a king, such an ambassador. (Remark of the ambassador of Louis XIII. of France to the king of Spain.) | 62 |
| Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die. Shakespeare. | 63 |
| When kings lose their temper, it is their people who pay for it. | 64 |
| Whosoever is king, thou’lt be his man. | 65 |
| Would you have me serve you, good king, give me the means of living. Portuguese. | 66 |
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