Thousand Quotes - page 2

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. (George Henry Lewes)
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. View quote
Graham Greene
The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort. View quote
Paulo Coelho
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. View quote
Washington Irving
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. View quote
Joseph Addison
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Terrible. It took me 17 years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. View quote
Hank Aaron
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love. View quote
Richard Bach
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty. View quote
Imelda Marcos
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. View quote
E. E. Cummings
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. View quote
Mother Teresa
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself. View quote
Daniel Defoe
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. (Edward Abbey)
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. View quote
Aleksandr Pushkin
I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour. View quote
Macaulay Culkin
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men, the other 999 follow women. View quote
Groucho Marx
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