Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals. Peter Ackroyd
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.Thomas Alva Edison
I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states. John Henrik Clarke
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.' Mark Twain
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. Benjamin Disraeli
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.plato
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. Diogenes