Ten Thousand

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

    To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked
    out of ten thousand.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Saul was very angry, for this saying displeased him. He said, -They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands; what more can he have but the kingdom? So Saul eyed David from that day on.
    Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 18:8-9.

    This war no longer bears the characteristics of former inter-European conflicts. It is one of those elemental conflicts which usher in a new millennium and which shake the world once in a thousand years.
    Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)