Famous quotes containing the words christian and/or king:
“The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“I am as unfit for any practical purpose—I mean for the furtherance of the world’s ends—as gossamer for ship-timber; and I, who am going to be a pencil-maker to-morrow, can sympathize with God Apollo, who served King Admetus for a while on earth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)