It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. Petrarch
You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long. Boris Yeltsin
A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty. Robert Jordan
It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession. Edgar Allan Poe
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us. Al Goldstein
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. French Proverb