WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:28:00 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg crown – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Howard, Robert E. -- “The Phoenix on the Sword” (1932) https://wist.info/howard-robert-e/33407/ https://wist.info/howard-robert-e/33407/#respond Mon, 25 Apr 2016 13:06:20 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=33407 When I was a fighting man, the kettle-drum they beat,
The people scattered gold-dust before my horse’s feet;
But now I am a great king, the people hound my track
With poison in my wine-cup, and daggers at my back.


Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) American author
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