Ten Thousand

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

“Now boys, remember you are the Twenty-third, and give them hell. In these woods the Rebels don’t know but we are ten thousand; and if we fight, and when we charge yell, we are as good as ten thousand, by God.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“You may persevere in obscurity for ten years in your study, but the day you make a name for yourself, the whole world will acclaim you.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Death hath
had a thousand doors to let out life,
I shall find one ... From a loath’d life,
I’ll not an hour outlive.”
—Philip Massinger (1583–1640)