Palaces Quotes

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines.

Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place.

The ancient city Aqpu, where kings who had preceded me had built, had deteriorated and turned into ruined hills. I rebuilt the city completely, decorated it and made it bigger than it was before. I then built my palace.

Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace

The Maghribis have just founded a town outside Fustat called Cairo. Jawhar, the Maghribis general, staked it out on his arrival in Egypt for his army, stores, and retinue. It now has different quarters and markets, as well as places for breeding livestock, facilities such as baths and inns, and even well-built palaces and useful facilities. Jawhar has surrounded it with a strong, high wall, which encloses a space three times greater than the built-up area: these are parks kept in reserve for the livestock in case of outside attack. Inside are offices for the administrators of Egypt, and a beautiful elegant congregational mosque tended by an abundance of clerics and muezzins.

When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.

I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!

The enjoyment of civil rights, would be best and soonest obtained if every county in the land were made a little Commonwealth and their chief town a city, where the nobility and chief gentry may build houses or palaces, befitting their quality, may bear part in the government, make their own judicial laws and execute them by their elected judicatures without appeal in all things of civil government between man and man.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.

Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

You don't go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.

America responded to the 9-11 attacks by invading Iraq, only to discover that Saddam Hussein had palaces of mass luxury, not weapons of mass destruction.

Why don’t you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything

You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope

When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West.

Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.

When you don't have any money, any things, any house - if you are unattached, what is the difficulty in it? But when you have everything and you remain unattached - a beggar in the palace - then something very deep has been attained.

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

My soul is not a palace of the past.

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.