Ten Thousand

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

    “I see the callus on his sole,
    The disappearing last of him
    And of his race starvation slim,
    Oh, years ago—ten thousand years.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Spite of all the Indian-summer sunlight on the hither side of Hawthorne’s soul, the other side—like the dark half of the physical sphere—is shrouded in a blackness, ten times black.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “They thought it good you hear a play,
    And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
    Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)