“You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer”
Mark Twain
“They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - / Christopher Robin went down with Alice.”
A. A. Milne
“Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Was ever book containing such vile matterSo fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwellIn such a gorgeous palace!”
William Shakespeare
“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail”
John Donne
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
William Blake
“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.”