Twenty Thousand Leagues

Famous quotes containing the words twenty thousand, twenty, thousand and/or leagues:

“Is not the king’s name twenty thousand names?
Arm, arm, my name! A puny subject strikes
At thy great glory.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“He who fears not the death of a thousand cuts will dare to unhorse the emperor.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)