Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr's crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince. " - I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.
Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.
Let us hope that the US (Democratic and Republican party) allows us, their European cultural and economical crown vassals, to liberate ourselves and deport the Muslims without them militarily intervening. We shouldn't forget that we have many allies in the US including a sizable faction of the Republican Party.
Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.
We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ's sufferings!
It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire.
I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.
Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.
Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.
Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
He that hath no cross deserves no crown.
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could ‘most talent’ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.
The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home, And so am come abroad to see the world.
O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?