Thousand Years

Famous quotes containing the words thousand years, thousand and/or years:

    Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

    Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
    Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    I stir my martinis with the screw,
    four-inch and stainless steel,
    and think of my hip where it lay
    for four years like a darkness.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)