“Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.”
Bible
“The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.”
Benjamin Franklin
“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown”
William Penn
“You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.”
Boris Yeltsin
“Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.”
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
“If he can make me I know he's got to be sitting on his throne chuckling.”
Bob Clark
“He is called the Most Perfect of the Perfect. He sits upon His Perfect Throne. He looks so Beautiful in His Perfect Place. He fulfills the hopes of the hopeless. O Nanak, if one obtains the Perfect Lord, how can his virtues decrease?”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
