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When Eve upon the first of Men
The apple press'd with specious cant,
Oh! what a thousand pities then
That Adam was not adamant! — Thomas Hood
The apple press'd with specious cant,
Oh! what a thousand pities then
That Adam was not adamant! — Thomas Hood
traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.
— Ibn Battuta
One good, compassionate and caring Self is a thousand times greater than all the fanciful, imaginary supernatural entities in the world.
— Abhijit Naskar
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.
— Washington Irving
In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.
— Smith Wigglesworth
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
— William Cowper
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.
— J.E.B. Spredemann
Gosh, all a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty-thousand dollars to sign.
— Cy Young
They warned of taints lingering from the Builders' war, stains from their poisons, or shadows from the Day of a Thousand Suns.
— Mark Lawrence
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
— Amy Lowell
A thousand lifetimes I'd exchange if only I could have one with you.
— Christina Strigas
In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g.
— J.G. Ballard
Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.
— John Wright
A pitcher is worth a thousand worts.
— Hannah Hart
I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
— Adam Mansbach
A thousand minus one is never a thousand
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I don't know anything that's quite so dead as a man who's fallen three or four thousand feet off the edge of a cloud.
— George Horace Lorimer
I tried to shut out the feelings that were hurting my heart with a thousand tiny pinpricks, which was somehow worse that having it broken all at once.
— Morgan Matson
Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.
— Alexander Wilson
In a moment we lost our minds hereand lay our spirits down.Today we lived a thousand years,all we have is now.
— Edward Kowalczyk
We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason
— Marcus Cornelius Fronto
We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.
— Roger Daltrey
Once in a thousand years, you know, one cat is allowed to speak. My cats are philosophers-neither of them ever cries over spilt milk.
— L.M. Montgomery
I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.
— Louis L'Amour
Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls and ain't one of them got a stitch of clothes on.
— Jeff Foxworthy
Mi hijito, I've told you a thousand times, if you speak badly of people, God will punish you and make you just like them.
— Victor Villasenor
It's a prism inside, holding all seven colors And a thousand shades scattered All belonging to the only one Each unique, and yet together
— Chinmayi Tripathi
A picture may tell a thousand words but it doesn't tell a story
— Thomas Wright
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
— Mark Twain
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
We've had enough exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues - I see the world is rotten because of silence.
— Catherine Of Siena
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
— Henry David Thoreau
Over ten thousand people have signed a petition to recall Governor Schwarzenegger. I'm sorry, that is next year's joke.
— Craig Kilborn
For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.
— Yoshida Kenko
The Great Way has no gate; / there are a thousand paths to it. / If you pass through the barrier, / you walk the universe alone.
— Wumen Huikai
I just find 'Scooby-Doo' unwatchable. I can't stand it. I like all those other Hanna-Barbera shows about a thousand times more than 'Scooby-Doo.'
— Dana Snyder
Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand.
— Neil Turok
A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
— Jackson Pollock
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
— John Balguy
You live a thousand lives when you read a thousand books.
— Stephenie Meyer
All these things, and a thousand like them, came to pass in and close upon the dear old year one
— Charles Dickens
There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
— William Godwin
I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.
— Robert Schumann
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
— Henry David Thoreau
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
— Winston Churchill
She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time
— Ann Brashares
A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Who didn't exist at the convergence of a thousand thousand stories?
— Garth Risk Hallberg
Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
— Plutarch
A smile can express more than a thousand feelings, but to me The Unknown, its the deadliest weapon i was created with and have control over
— Ryan Leonard
I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.
— Dennis Lehane
I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of the best ways to take a walk.
— Rebecca Solnit
Blue eyes as level as a foot rule, with wrinkles at the corners - the product of humour and of twenty years' staring at a thousand horizons.
— Nicholas Monsarrat
I could sit right here and think a thousand miles away, Since I had the blues this bad, I can't remember the day ...
— Julio Cortazar
The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
— Walter Jon Williams
Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It's a terrific lesson in economy and precession.
— Darynda Jones
A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick
a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart. — Neil Gaiman
a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart. — Neil Gaiman
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
— Ann Hood
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
— John Barrymore
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The night has a thousand eyes.
— John Lyly
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
— Alan W. Watts
I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.
— Neil Oliver
A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
— Victor Hugo
And I began walking. A thousand miles, or two, I would carry her all the way to Dalbreck if I had to. No one would pry her from my arms again.
— Mary E. Pearson
good works gathered in a thousand ages, such as deeds of generosity, or offerings to the blissful ones, a single flash of anger shatters them.
— Santideva
There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.
— Orson Welles
The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.
— Umar
When you know even for a moment
That it's your time
Then you can walk with the power
Of a thousand generations — Bruce Cockburn
That it's your time
Then you can walk with the power
Of a thousand generations — Bruce Cockburn
I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother.
— Andrea Gibson
Seven thousand years is just one day at a time
— Terry Pratchett
An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes.
— Rodolfo Graziani
On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.
— Frederik Pohl
It is better to learn two important lessons in life than a thousand when you are about to die.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
I've been to the dentist a thousand times so I know the drill
I smooth my hair, sit back in the chair
But somehow I still get the chills — Owl City
I smooth my hair, sit back in the chair
But somehow I still get the chills — Owl City
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
— Benjamin Franklin
It seemed stupid to be pursued on foot like Homo sapiens sapiens of a hundred thousand years before.
— Gregory Benford
To Him who has sense, a sign is enough
For the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough. — Idries Shah
For the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough. — Idries Shah
If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.
— Stopford Brooke
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
— Gautama Buddha
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
— William Shakespeare
In a thousand subtle and unsubtle ways they were reinventing the experience of living on board a boat.
— Michael Lewis
A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself.
— Hillel The Elder