Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old crown quotes, crown sayings, and crown proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.William Shakespeare
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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.Frederick The Great
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A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.Winifred Holtby
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Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.Ovid
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.Pearl Bailey
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Uneasy lies the head that craves the crown.Howard Koch
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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.Welsh Proverb
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Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.Aberjhani
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Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.George R.R. Martin
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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. Christopher Morley
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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine. Friedrich von Schiller
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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.John Milton
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. Oscar Wilde
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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.George Bancroft
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To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.Elizabeth I
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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns. Gordon Lightfoot
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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.Lloyd Alexander
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He that has no cross will have no crown.Francis Quarles
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A good woman is worth, if she were sold, the fairest crown that's made of purest gold.John Wodroephe
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Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.Juvenal
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.William Penn
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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.Kabir
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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.Franz Kafka
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A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.Lloyd Alexander
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If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.Thomas Carlyle
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A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.Virgil
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He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole. Eustachius
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Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end. John Webster
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As a king can wear a crown, a crown can also weary a king.Anthony Liccione
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.Walter Lang
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.Alexander Pope
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I ask not for any crown / But that which all may win; / Nor try to conquer any world / Except the one within.Louisa May Alcott
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Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.Shannon L. Alder
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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.Francis Bacon
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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.William Blake
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This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.Thomas Carlyle
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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.Victor Hugo
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Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.Dame Julie Andrews
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A King and Queen cannot support a crown with eyes looking down. Their universe expands as far as you can see.T. F. Hodge
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A crown is no cure for a headache.American Proverb
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The crown is, according to the saying, the 'fountain of honour'; but the treasury is the spring of business.Walter Bagehot
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America! America! / God shed His grace on thee / And crown thy good with brotherhood / From sea to shining sea!.Katherine Lee Bates
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I will cling to the old rugged cross, / And exchange it some day for a crown.George Bennard
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You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.William Jennings Bryan
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No crown carries such royalty with it as doth humility; no monument gives such glory as an unsullied name; no worldly gain can equal that which comes from observing God's laws.Eleazar of Worms
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There are no crown-wearers in Heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Let grace be the beginning, grace the consummation, grace the crown.The Venerable Bede
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The wicked have a never-dying worm and the godly a never-fading crown.Thomas Watson
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My crown is in my heart, not on my head; / Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones, / Nor to be seen: my crown is call'd content; A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.William Shakespeare (King Henry VI)
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I will not wear a crown of gold where my Master wore a crown of thorns.Godfrey de Buillon
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It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.Friedrich von Schiller
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If you put on a crown, somebody will try to take your head.Lazlo Ferran
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The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.Albert Camus
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The Muse in the tower, / whose debt you enthrone / Those jewels that you borrow, / —her crown still on loan.Kurt Philip Behm
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America / Bright freedom's crown / Bought with patriots blood for thee. / May thy song abound / And forever resound / Across all the lands and the seas.Timothy Ivan Brumley
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My sister this morning / When you walked out that door / Surely the sun couldn't have been shining / When you forgot your crown / Have you forgotten / Who you really are / A queen in every right / Don't forget your crown.Chelsea Blues
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I wear the crown of shade / These people know my name / This crown hides all my shame / My soul no longer pains / I am not ashamed / I am the queen of shade.Bjorn Duphot
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Crowning a clown won't make him a king.American Proverb
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Crown Him with many crowns, / The Lamb upon His throne; / Hark! how the heavenly anthem drowns / All music but its own. / Awake my soul, and sing / Of Him who died for thee; / And hail Him as thy matchless King / Through all eternity.Matthew Bridges