Thousand Quotes

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

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.

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.

If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public.

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?