Ten Thousand

Famous quotes containing the words ten thousand, ten and/or thousand:

“Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

“In ten thousand years the Sierras
Will be dry and dead, home of the scorpion.”
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

“Better to have a thousand friends, and not one enemy.”
—Chinese proverb.