Famous quotes containing the words thousand men, thousand and/or men:
“I don’t have to pound on that thick skull of yours and make big speeches as to what this mission means to us. I think you know. If you do good, it means the lives of several thousand men, so do good.”
—Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, Lester Cole, and Raoul Walsh. Col. Carter, Objective Burma, giving a subaltern a mission (1945)
“Fate will bring together those a thousand miles apart; without fate, they will miss each other though they come face to face.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Hamlet: Why was he sent into England?
Grave-digger: Why, because a was mad. A shall recover his wits there; or if a do not, ‘tis no great matter there.
Hamlet: Why?
Grave-digger: ‘Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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