(165 quotes found)
“When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.”
Arabian Proverb
“Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.”
William Shakespeare
“To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.”
Comte de Mirabeau
“Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns”
Andrew Marvell
“In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.”
Bible
“The king reigns, but does not govern”
Jan Zamoyski
“Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:) / That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace, / In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him: / When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.”
“You stars that reigned at my nativity, / Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, / Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist, / Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud.”
Christopher Marlowe
“When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful”
African Proverb
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