Famous quotes containing the words thousand and/or volumes:
“Civilization, for every advantage she imparts, holds a hundred evils in reserve;Mthe heart burnings, the jealousies, the social rivalries, the family dissensions, and the thousand self-inflicted discomforts of refined life, which make up in units the swelling aggregate of human misery.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)