Famous quotes containing the words thousand and/or generations:
“The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“The generations of thy peers are fled.
And we ourselves shall go;
But thou possessest an immortal lot,
And we imagine thee exempt from age”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)