Thousand Long Scale

Famous quotes containing the words thousand, long and/or scale:

    “Philosophy ... does not talk, but write, or, when it comes personally before an audience, lecture or read; and therefore it must be read to-morrow, or a thousand years hence. But the talker must naturally be attended to at once; he does not talk on without an audience; the winds do not long bear the sound of his voice.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Lo! he babbles of the fish-frys of long ago,
    Of the horse-races of long ago at Clary’s Grove,
    Of what Abe Lincoln said
    One time at Springfield.”
    —Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)

    “With a defeated joy,
    With an auspicious, and a dropping eye,
    With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage,
    In equal scale weighing delight and dole.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)