Forty Thousand Strong

Famous quotes containing the words forty, thousand and/or strong:

    Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.
    Stefan Zweig (18811942)

    “A thousand Christmas trees! at what apiece?”
    He felt some need of softening that to me:
    “A thousand trees would come to thirty dollars.”
    Then I was certain I had never meant
    To let him have them.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    The strong arm, my lord, is no argument, though it overcomes all logic.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)