Every staff of empire is truly crooked at the top. (English) Only one can be emperor. (German) The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church. (Italian) The emperor is rich, but he cannot buy one extra year. (Chinese) To serve the emperor is to...

An emperor is a (male) monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress is the feminine form. As a title, "empress" may indicate the wife of an emperor (empress consort) or a woman who is a ruling monarch...