Like prince, like people. [ Proverb ]

Of a new prince, new bondage. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Prodigious actions may as well be done
By weaver's issue, as by prince's son. [ Dryden ]

The prince of darkness is a gentleman. [ Marlowe ]

Who's a prince or beggar in the grave? [ Otway ]

We may see a prince, but not search him. [ Proverb ]

The prince, who kept the world in awe.
The judge, whose dictate fix'd the law.
The rich, the poor, the great, the small,
Are levelled: death confounds them all. [ Gay ]

Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
Even such a woman oweth to her husband. [ William Shakespeare ]

Man is not the prince of creatures,
But in reason; fail that, he is worse
Than horse or dog, or beast of wilderness. [ Field ]

War ought to be the only study of a prince. [ Machiavelli ]

A prince wants a million, a beggar but a groat. [ Proverb ]

No trumpet-blast profaned
The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born;
No bloody streamlet stained
Earth's silver rivers on that sacred morn. [ Bryant ]

A prince should be slow to punish, prompt to reward. [ Ovid ]

He had a prince's mind imprisoned in a poor man's purse. [ Fuller ]

A yeoman upon his legs is higher than a prince upon his knees. [ Proverb ]

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation robes. [ Pope ]

He that has but one eye, is a prince among those that have none. [ Proverb ]

A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have. [ Carlyle ]

Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Who draws his sword against his prince, must throw away his scabbard. [ Proverb ]

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince. [ Horace ]

If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire. [ Mencius ]

He that spends to his proportion is as brave as a prince, and a prince exceeding that is a prodigal. [ Proverb ]

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer. [ Cervantes ]

To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar, is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince. [ Sadi ]

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant. [ Henry Home ]

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. [ Plato ]

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Vice is infamous, though in a prince, and virtue honorable, though in a peasant. [ Addison ]

There is a certain majesty in plainness; as the proclamation of a prince never frisks in its tropes or fine conceits, in numerous and well-turned periods, but commands in sober, natural expressions. [ South ]

As soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldest not, as of a prince whom thou couldest not look upon, will trouble thine eyes if the wind blow it thither; and when a whirlwind hath blown the dust of the churchyard into the church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the churchyard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeoman, this the plebeian bran? [ Rev. Dr. Donne ]