Famous quotes containing the words thousand times, thousand and/or times:
“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)
“He who fears not the death of a thousand cuts will dare to unhorse the emperor.”
—Chinese proverb.
“In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europe has endured profound rearrangements and is perhaps on the brink of enduring yet others, where so many threatening and new problems appear everywhere, you will admit it may be demanded of a writer that he be more than a fine wit who makes us forget in idle and byzantine discussions on the merits of pure form ...”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)