Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 104
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Variant: My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
Source: King Henry VI, Part 3
“Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
Variant: Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it
“A mind content both crown and kingdom is.”
Robert Greene (dramatist) (1558–1592) English author
Song, "Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content", line 12, from Farewell to Folly (1591); Dyce p. 309.
“Without a huge shock, the sleepy-head, ignorant Japanese will never wake up.”
Hiroo Onoda (1922–2014) Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer
Judit Kawaguchi, "Words to Live By: Hiroo Onoda"
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto III
Original: (pt) Eis aqui, quase cume da cabeça
De Europa toda, o Reino Lusitano,
Onde a terra se acaba e o mar começa.
Stanza 20, lines 1–3 (tr. William Julius Mickle)
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2
King Henry, Act III, scene i.
Source: Henry IV, Part 2 (1597–8)
“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content;
The quiet mind is richer than a crown.”
Robert Greene (dramatist) (1558–1592) English author
Song, "Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content", line 1, from Farewell to Folly (1591); Dyce p. 309.
“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown…”
Robert Greene (dramatist) (1558–1592) English author
Source: Greene's Farewell to Folly (1591)
Context: Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content;
The quiet mind is richer than a crown;
Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent;
The poor estate scorns fortune’s angry frown;
Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss;
Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss”
“From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.”
John Fletcher The Honest Man's Fortune
Act II, scene 2. Compare Thomas Middleton, A Mad World, My Masters, Act I, scene 3. Pliny, Natural History, Book VII, Chapter XVII. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, scene 2.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
