Famous quotes containing the words sage and/or kings:
“Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet,
To think how mony counsels sweet,
How mony lengthen’d, sage advices,
The husband frae the wife despises!”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“They know, and will therefore say, that kings are the servants, not the proprietors of the people.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)