King David

Famous quotes containing the words king and/or david:

““Would you—be good enough—” Alice panted out, after running a little further, “to stop a minute—just to get—one’s breath again?”
“I’m good enough,” the King said, “only I’m not strong enough. You see, a minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

“This is the only panacea. I mean sincerity in our dealings with ourselves mainly; any other is comparatively easy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)