How Much Can A Crown Be Worth, When A Crow Can Dine Upon A King?

[tien238lnd]

What does this quote mean?

[waterboatman]

Basically it means that it matters not how high and mighty you are, you are still human, and crows can pick over your bones, just the same as anyone else's.

[TWR]

That's the way I look at life Boaty / Tien, people who think they are better than the rest are sad people.

[waterboatman]

The only way to get by TWR.

[mikey4444]

George R.R. Martin, "A Feast for Crows"

As to what it means.....I haven't a clue !

[jno]

crows only dine on dead kings, though (and very seldom do that, I would have thought, kings usually get properly buried). So it says we're all equal in death, which isn't really saying much that's new.

[-Talbot-]

I'm not sad I'm just better than other people.

I agree with Boaty.

[Old_Geezer]

Crowns are for the living, being bird fodder is for the dead. Not the best thought out quote. To answer the quote, it is worth a kingdom if one plays one's cards right. But it doesn't make anyone immortal, save maybe the memory of them.

[jno]

very true, OG, everyone remembers Ozymandias even though the poet was suggesting just the opposite.

[scooping]

Same sentiment as "At the end of the game the king and pawn go back in the same box".