The evening crowns the day. [ Proverb ]

To have the power to forgive,
Is empire and prerogative,
And 'tis in crowns a nobler gem,
To grant a pardon than condemn. [ Butler ]

Opinion crowns with an imperial voice. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns. [ William Shakespeare ]

Religion crowns the statesman and the man,
Sole source of public and of private peace. [ Young ]

Without a genius, learning soars in vain;
And, without learning, genius sinks again;
Their force united, crowns the sprightly reign. [ Elphinston ]

There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes.
Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth. [ Bailey ]

The evening shows the day, and death crowns life. [ Webster ]

I have heard they are the most lewd impostors,
Made of all terms and shreds, no less beliers
Of great men's favours than their own vile medicines,
Which they will utter upon monstrous oaths;
Selling that drug for two pence ere they part.
Which they have valued at twelve crowns before. [ Ben Jonson ]

By the device of printing, a Bible can be sold for sixty crowns. [ John Faust ]

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains. [ Pope ]

Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome. [ Massinger ]

The end crowns all; and that old common arbitrator, Time, will one day end it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Glory, ambition, armies, fleets, thrones, crowns: playthings of grown children. [ Victor Hugo ]

The man who has taken one wife deserves a crown of patience; the man who has taken two deserves two crowns of folly. [ Proverb ]

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. [ Chapin ]

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all. [ Fenelon ]

No man is more miserable than he that hath no adversity. That man is not tried, whether he be good or bad, and God never crowns those virtues which are only faculties and dispositions, but every act of virtue is an ingredient into reward - God so dresses us for heaven. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Oh! woe to him who first had the cruelty to ridicule the name of old maid, a name which recalls so many sorrowful deceptions, so many sufferings, so much destitution! Woe to him who finds a target for his sarcasm in an involuntary misfortune, and who crowns white hair with thorns! [ E. Souvestre ]