Famous quotes containing the word thousand:
“Lucky Man,
she can’t find room
in your heart
filled with a thousand women.
She has nothing better
to do with her days,
so she makes her thin body
even thinner.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“The rumor of a great city goes out beyond its borders, to all the latitudes of the known earth. The city becomes an emblem in remote minds; apart from the tangible export of goods and men, it exerts its cultural instrumentality in a thousand phases.”
—In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)