Famous quotes containing the word thousand:
“Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever other worlds God may be Lord of, he is not the Lord of this; for else this world would seem to give the lie to Him; so utterly repugnant seem its ways to the instinctively known ways of Heaven.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,if it is only to make a better paste blacking,and they are themselves so much the better morally for it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“You are a thousand times a properer man
Than she a woman. Tis such fools as you
That makes the world full of ill-favored children.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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