A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
Frederick The Great
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
Pearl Bailey
A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.
James Thomas Fields
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
Carl Yastrzemski
And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be against this motion.
Robert Walpole
At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.
Robert Trout
At the concert I'm going to crown the best looking man, Mr. Tampa. Bald men definitely have an edge.
Christine Lavin
Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
Althea Gibson
Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
Walter Lang
But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown.
Robert Walpole
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
George Bancroft
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
Ovid
God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
Elizabeth I
Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?
Robert Walpole
He that hath no cross deserves no crown.
Francis Quarles
I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.
Wilfrid Laurier
I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.
Wilfrid Laurier
I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.
Rodger Ward
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