Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown. [Lat. , Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato; Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema. ]
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
Brisk Confidence still best with woman copes: Pique her and soothe in turn-soon Passion crowns thy hopes.
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world.
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 spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.
One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown
Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.
As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.
Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.
It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown. . . it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe. . . and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?
The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.
The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.