Thousand

Famous quotes containing the word thousand:

“I have full cause of weeping, but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws
Or ere I’ll weep.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I don’t have to pound on that thick skull of yours and make big speeches as to what this mission means to us. I think you know. If you do good, it means the lives of several thousand men, so do good.”
—Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, Lester Cole, and Raoul Walsh. Col. Carter, Objective Burma, giving a subaltern a mission (1945)

“The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)