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“The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything.”

Source: The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry

“I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.”

Men Years Two Whole Body President Leadership Judging Fit Thousand Thousand Years

Book:Specimen Days & Collect

Source: Specimen Days & Collect

“The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.”

Source: Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary

“And on that day when my strength is failing; the end draws near and my time has come. Still my soul will sing Your praise unending ten thousand years and then forevermore”

Years Stills Soul Ends Christian Failing Strength Thousand Ten Draws Praise My Soul My Time Thousand Years Unending

Author:Matt Redman

“Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.”

Years Grows Morning Saws Tree Fine Thousand Thousand Years

Author:Edwin Way Teale

“But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the past few thousand years, we have lost our vulnerability to disease and cold and wild animals, but we have also lost good ways to bring up children, look after old people, stave off diabetes and heart disease and understand the real dangers of everyday life.”

“The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.”

Years Two Thousand Prove Glory Years Ago Intellect Physics Senses Confusion Thousand Years Skeptic

Book:The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers

Source: The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers

“A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife.”

Years Has Beens Stills Shows Century Thousand Eating Years Ago England Bones Chinese Meat Kitchen Knives Fourth Thousand Years Forks Hacked Chopsticks

Author:Ruth Reichl

“Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed; and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.”

Years Sides White Five Sea Thousand Beats Years Ago Thousand Years Flew Surf Steep Sullen Fowl Shrouds Yawning

Author:Moby

“I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.”

World Years Heart Two Cold Thousand Preacher Thousand Years Old Fashioned Old Time Cold World

Book:Salesman's Prospectus for

Source: Salesman's Prospectus for

“Sun and moon have no light left, earth is dark; Our women's world is sunk so deep, who can help us? Jewelry sold to pay this trip across the seas, Cut off from my family I leave my native land. Unbinding my feet I clean out a thousand years of poison, With heated heart arouse all women's spirits. Alas, this delicate kerchief here Is half stained with blood, and half with tears.”

World Years Heart Helping Light Earth Spirit Left Dark Pay Half Sun Cutting Blood Sea Feet Land Tears Thousand Moon My Family Clean Poison Native Delicate Thousand Years Alas Jewelry Native Land

Author:Qiu Jin

“No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.”

Years Heart Forever Childhood Thousand Ten Glad Thank God Thousand Years Santa Virginia Santa Claus

Author:Francis Pharcellus Church

“Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture of the region. We are faced with the inescapable realization that if Jesus had been able to read the documents of old Egypt, he would have been amazed to find his own biography already substantially written some four or five thousand years previously.”

“If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers. You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think about the story you’d seen. The truth is, you wouldn’t remember that movie a week later, except you’d feel robbed and want your money back. Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo.”

Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“Thank God our time is now when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere never to leave us till we take, the greatest stride of the soul man ever took. affairs are now soul size the enterprise is exploration unto God. Where are you making for? It takes so many thousand years to wake. But will you wake for pity's sake?”

Men Years Soul Thousand Affair Sake Size Come Up Awakening Pity Our Time Enterprise Exploration Thank God Thousand Years Stride Soul Man

Author:Christopher Fry

“When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found.”

Years Found Sleep Truth Is Thousand Demand Awakening Buried Thousand Years Turnaround Time To Sleep

Author:George Harrison

“Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by any and every handful of foreigners who chose to walk over our prostrate bodies? Because they had faith in themselves and we had not.”

People Years Has Beens Body Lasts Faith Three Walks Millions Thousand Hundred Thirty Thousand Years Handful Foreigners

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter one of human history -- a long and uneventful chapter. Their chapter of human history ended about ten thousand years ago with the birth of agriculture in the Near East. This event marked the beginning of chapter two, the chapter of the Takers. It's true there are still Leavers living in the world, but these are anachronisms, fossils -- people living in the past, people who just don't realize that their chapter of human history is over. '”

Source: Ishmael: A Novel

“Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today, you can't help but feel that life is a terrible complexity of problems. But if you look back a few thousand years, you realize that we have advanced fantastically. If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of mankind.”

“Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.”

Love Years Made Planets Evolution Civilization Thousand Hundred Intelligence Thousand Years Healer Destroyers Parasites Stewards Helpers

Author:Richard Bach

“Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand years, and tower far above our mortal heads. As such they are symbols and keepers of unlimited power, longevity, and timelessness. An untouched forest, studded with trees of all ages, sizes and types, is more than a mysterious, magical place - it is one of the energy reservoirs of nature. Within its boundaries stand ancient and new sentinels, guardians of the universal force which has manifested on the the Earth. . . .”

“The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.”

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.”

Years Hands Death Time Thousand Ten Be Good Good Times Thousand Years

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of "practice" events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure--but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary "tools," etc.”

“How does it feel to be seven thousand years old? That depends. On what? On how I want to feel.”

Want Feels Years Doe Depends Thousand Seven Thousand Years

Author:Greg Egan

“The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.”

Years Earth Leader Thousand Fixed Rome Thousand Years

Book:Reconciliation: a plain statement of the gracious provision Jehovah has made to bring all men into full harmony with Himself that the obedient ones may have everlasting life on earth in contentment and complete happiness

Source: Reconciliation: a plain statement of the gracious provision Jehovah has made to bring all men into full harmony with Himself that the obedient ones may have everlasting life on earth in contentment and complete happiness

“Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.”

Years Humans Thousand Computer Majors Conscious Moved Branches Software Thousand Years Civilisation Descendants Diaspora

Author:Greg Egan

“No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.”

“Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.”

Years Two Sometimes Mother Three Father Memories Blood Thousand Dancing Thousand Years Mother And Father

Author:Martha Graham

“Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years.”

Years Two Tree Return Thousand Plant Profit Forests Inches Thousand Years Harvest Crops Mold Millennium

Book:A Country of Marriage: Poems

Source: A Country of Marriage: Poems

“You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.”

Years May Whole Common Greater Thousand Goodness Dues Be Good Inherent Thousand Years

Book:Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself: An English Translation with Introductory Study on Stoicism and the Last of the Stoics

Source: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself: An English Translation with Introductory Study on Stoicism and the Last of the Stoics

“For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy”

Years Has Beens Two Morality Thousand Customs Thousand Years Earnest Unworthy Moralist

Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.”

Ifs Want Years Mines Thousand Thousand Years Most Romantic

Book:The Evolution of Mara Dyer

Source: The Evolution of Mara Dyer

“Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.”

Men Years Body Four Thousand Hundred Horse Flesh Ran Outcomes Endurance Thousand Years Runners

Author:Paul Shepard

“A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.”

Years Home House Friendship Thousand Built Stones Deeds Posts Thousand Years Tiles Piers

Author:Victor Hugo

“The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.”

Ifs Years Art Said Two Important Ideas Artist Creativity Written Needed Thousand Importance Innovation Thousand Years Publishers Nothing New Balzac

Author:William Faulkner

“Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out the cave was improving the environment. Many people improving the environment think only in terms of the air they breathe in their hometown and the water in the aquifer under their hometown. My guess is very few are thinking centuries ahead or thousand of years ahead, but that's what we have to do.”

People Thinking Years Mean Different Might Term Water Environment Air Century Thousand Years Ago Twenties Breathe Different Things Thousand Years Improving Caves Hometown Sweeping Aquifers

Author:Pete Seeger

“It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.”

Years Fire Imagine Fronts Thousand Eating Sitting Meat Thousand Years Cavemen Eating Raw Raw Meat

Author:Julian Casablancas

“Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while I await injunctions from the light or the dark; I wait for shapeliness limned, or dissolution. Is paradise due or narrowly missed until another thousand years? I wait in a blue hour and faraway noise of hammering, and on a page a poem begun, something about to be dispersed, something about to come into being.”

Knows Years Light Names Waiting Hours Memories Dark Thousand Pages Years Ago Letters Blue Dues Noise Paradise Thousand Years Dissolution

Book:The city in which I love you: poems

Source: The city in which I love you: poems

“I have died everyday, waiting for you.”

Waiting Died Everyday Thousand Years Waiting For You

Author:Christina Perri

“In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not changed much through twelve thousand years - and those are tree names: especially birch, willow, adler, elm, ash, apple and beech (bher, wyt, alysos, ulmo, os, abul, bhago). Seed syllables, bija, of the life of the west.”

Years Book Names Language Groups Tree Changed Thousand West Seeds Apples Twelve Ashes Thousand Years Tribes Syllables Adler

Book:The Practice of the Wild

Source: The Practice of the Wild

“Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls.”

Years Has Beens Today Fall Found Gone Virtue Magic Revolution Thousand Ten Years Ago Regimes Thousand Years Defiance

Book:On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth

Source: On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth

“Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.”

Years Mind Young Three Born Thousand Thousand Years Young Minds

Author:Shelagh Delaney

“At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men”

Men Years Children Government Lasts Law Four Rights Thousand Authority Various Thousand Years Children Of Men

Book:A Series of Pamphlets

Source: A Series of Pamphlets

“As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.”

Source: Earth Abides

“You simply cannot make more (reefs), unless you have a few thousand years to wait.”

Years Waiting Thousand Thousand Years Reefs Oil Spill

Author:Doug Rader

“Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the ideas seem to circulate around. I think it is important to somehow push or stretch or emphasize, in as many ways as I can, the sheer bulk, shape, heaviness, the juices, the actual structure of the body. Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.”

Thinking Way Years Firsts I Can Two Important Ideas Body Seems Artist Figures Painting Personality Thousand Shapes Structure Cinema Sheer Thousand Years Juice Heaviness

Author:Peter Greenaway

“To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of it, and at last the indifference because any one would.”

Years Firsts Lasts Faces Thousand Originals Indifference Thousand Years Commonplace Sneer

Book:The Shadow Christ: An Introduction to Christ Himself

Source: The Shadow Christ: An Introduction to Christ Himself

“If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.”

Ifs Men Years Heart Voice Hours Watches Thousand Over You Thousand Years Martyr Voice Of God

Author:Johannes Tauler

“Perhaps today there is a greater kindness of tone, as there is greater ingenuity of expression to make up for the fact that all the real, solid, elemental jests against doctors were uttered some one or two thousand years ago.”

Years Two Real Facts Today Kindness Greater Expression Thousand Years Ago Doctors Medicine Tone Thousand Years Ingenuity Elementals

Author:Charles Loomis Dana