Famous quotes containing the words elder and/or king:
“As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromwell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)