Thousand Knives

Famous quotes containing the words thousand and/or knives:

“A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)