#prince

Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#completely #fortunate #good #had #happy

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#consider #contrive #execute #furnishes #gives

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue. ↗

— Philip Massinger

#man #prince #private #vice #virtue

It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#administration #enjoy #every #expedient #good

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady. ↗

— Jennie Churchill

#lady #may #more #princess #richest

For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy. ↗

— Andrew Morton

#britain #cabinet #charles #during #europe

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#became #been #choice #competition #either

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#bryan #county #family #fifteen #found

I did make some not-so-great relationship decisions when I was a lot younger. I do know that not all high school boys are great and wonderful and Prince Charming, and there are a few that are going to treat you that way. ↗

— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

#decisions #did #few #going #great

As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#good #hard #i #just #make