Thousand Quotes

"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times."
-Mark Twain

"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace."
-Buddha

"I wrote a thousand words every day."
-Jack London

"Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age.... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, This was their finest hour."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan."
-John F. Kennedy

"One "oh shit" can erase a thousand attaboys."
-Scott Adams

"Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence."
-Nikola Tesla

"To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. "
-William Shakespeare

"The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet."
-Lao tzu

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
-Lao tzu

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
-Galileo Galilei

"Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?"
-Benjamin Franklin

"If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based."
-Betty Friedan

"I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone."
-Edmund Burke

"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat."
-Woodrow Wilson

"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time."
-Lyndon B. Johnson

"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."
-Ronald Reagan

"The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer."
-Charles F. Kettering

"It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization."
-Agnes Repplier

"A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds."
-Chinese Proverb

"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."
-Thomas A. Edison

"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."
-Ludwig van Beethoven

"A coward dies a thousand deaths... a soldier dies but once."
-Tupac Shakur

"There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence."
-Meister Eckhart

"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived."
-Helen Keller

"If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up."
-Abraham Maslow

"A thousand miles on these shoes is not out of the question. There's nothing in the mid-sole to crush down."
-Kent Bohling