You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians,

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.