1. My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.-William Shakespeare
2. Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.-Marcus Tullius Cicero
3. A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.-Frederick The Great
4. A sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.-Alfred Lord Tennyson
5. The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.-Winifred Holtby
6. Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.-Ovid
7. A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.-Pearl Bailey
8. Uneasy lies the head that craves the crown.-Howard Koch
9. If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.-Welsh Proverb
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10. Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.-Aberjhani
11. Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.-George R.R. Martin
12. Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.-Christopher Morley
13. To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.-Friedrich von Schiller
14. A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.-John Milton
15. Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.-Oscar Wilde
16. By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.-George Bancroft
17. To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.-Elizabeth I
17. To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.-Gordon Lightfoot
18. A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.-Lloyd Alexander
19. He that has no cross will have no crown.-Francis Quarles
20. A good woman is worth, if she were sold, the fairest crown that’s made of purest gold.-John Wodroephe
21. Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.-Juvenal
22. No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.-William Penn
23. Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.-Kabir
24. Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.-Franz Kafka
25. A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.-Lloyd Alexander
26. If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.-Thomas Carlyle
27. A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.-Virgil
28. He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.-Eustachius