Oil Kings

Famous quotes containing the words oil and/or kings:

    “Eat what you can get.
    Where’s the salt
    in this dump of a village?
    And, Lucky Man,
    what’s the use
    of a salty thing
    if there’s no oil in it?”
    —Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    “As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.”
    —Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)