Famous quotes containing the word thousands:
“Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don’t we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don’t they take the hint? It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)