Best thousand & age Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is worthwhile to liveand fight courageouslyfor sacred ideals.O blow ye evil windsinto my body's firemy soul you'll never unravel.Even though disappointed a thousand timesor fallen in the fightand everything would worthless seem,I have lived amidst eternity -Be grateful, my soul -My life was worth living.He who was pressed from all sidesbut remained victorious in spiritis welcomed into the choir of heroes.He who overcame the fettersgiving wings to his mindis entering into the golden age ofthe victorious.”

“It could hardly be made since the pyramids, it is thought, were erected in the predynastic age under the regency of Pharaoh Cheops. This pharaoh, who was also known as Khufu, lived between 2589 and 2566 BC, or one thousand years before the Hyksos (Levites) were ever heard of.”

Years Made Age Known Heard Thousand Thousand Years Pyramids Pharaohs Khufu

Author:Michael Tsarion

“In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.”

Years May Two Age Memories Alive Politician Thousand Forgotten Immortality Thousand Years Bernard Shaw Stravinsky Madame Curie

Author:Anthony Burgess

“In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and accurate information on reserves, current accounts, and monetary and fiscal conditions will keep capital from fleeing precipitously at the first sign of trouble.”

Firsts Hard Age Trouble Conditions Information Thousand Accounts Financial Currents Investors Accurate Reserves Veils Monetary Fleeing Accurate Information

Author:Lawrence Summers

“Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.”

Years Problem Age Spirit Progress Middle Civilization Thousand Years Ago Difficulty Middle Ages Disturbed Hebrew

Author:Isaac Mayer Wise

“A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.”

Ifs Years May Age Fool Thousand Clean Wit Thousand Years Wipe Slate

Book:King of Thorns

Source: King of Thorns

“If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.”

Ifs Years Heart Would Be Age Mankind Thousand Standing Remains Conservative Intellect Thousand Years Commonplace Great Conservative

Book:Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Source: Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.”

World Age Wonder Thousand Seven Ashamed Callous Wonder Of The World

Author:L. Frank Baum

“Now let you and me buy wine today! Why say we have not the price? My horse spotted with five flowers, My fur-coat worth a thousand pieces of gold, These I will take out, and call my boy To barter them for sweet wine. And with you twain, let me forget The sorrow of ten thousand ages!”

Age Today Forget Boys Five Pieces Sweet Flower Sorrow Thousand Ten Gold Let Me Horse Wine Coats Fur My Boys Fur Coats Sweet Wine

Author:Li Bai

“It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.”

Wells Character Age Speak Parent Chance Five Thousand Twenties Clean Photograph Average Thirty Justified Initials Twenty Five Birthright Nicknames Composites Clean Living

Book:Average Jones

Source: Average Jones

“When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.”

“We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.”

Years Humans Age Three Human Beings Existence Millions Taught Thousand Six Hundred Twenties Seven Statistics Take Time Seven Years

Book:A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas

Source: A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas

“Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.”

Years Art Age Nature Fool Thousand Six Idle Thousand Years Mushrooms Antiques

Book:Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

“I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.”

Looks Age Gone Thousand Ten Insult Threatened Chivalry

Book:The Works of Edmund Burke

Source: The Works of Edmund Burke

“The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.”

Different Age Evil Lines Thousand Temptation Inquiry Speculation

Author:John Herschel

“During the age Atlantis, there were only several hundred thousand people living on our planet. They lived in a sublime state of harmony with nature. At that time, because of the purity of the earth's aura, it was much easier to meditate.”

People States Age Earth Planets Easier Thousand Hundred Harmony Ancient Purity Sublime Our Planet Living On Auras Ancient Egypt Atlantis

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I broke my leg at the age of ten, but it is never the same thing which comes to mind when I think about it. My memory of this event has never been, in reality, anything except the memory of my last memory of that event. This is why I use the image of a palimpsest - something written over something partially erased - that is what memory is for me. It's not a film you play back in exactly the same way. It's like theater, with characters who appear from time to time.”

Thinking Way Mind Mean I Can Play Character Use Reality Age Lasts Film Memories Written Events Strange Thousand Ten Theater Legs Broke Palimpsest

Author:Gore Vidal

“I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.”

Knows Way Feels Years Age Felt My Own Know How Thousand Ten Thousand Years

Book:Criss Cross

Source: Criss Cross

“My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.”

Years States Would Be Age Break Technology Five Thousand Nervous Things To Do Theme Bad Things Meaningless Arrogant Electric Thousand Years Extensions Nervous System

Book:Letters of Marshall McLuhan

Source: Letters of Marshall McLuhan

“If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.”

Ifs Years May Long Stills Age Pleasure Study Century Civilization Thousand Long Time Hundred Unity Thousand Years Geology Extending

Book:The Philosophy of Josiah Royce

Source: The Philosophy of Josiah Royce

“At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined, for the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.”

Firsts Has Beens Reason Age Law Simple Century Thousand Connections All Time Destroying Despotism

Author:Marquis de Sade

“If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.”

“If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by the same illness, and one half of them were to place themselves under the care of doctors, such as they are in our time, whilst the other half entrusted themselves to Nature and to their own discretion, I have not the slightest doubt that there would be more cases of death amongst the former, and more cases of recovery among the latter.”

People Ifs Would Be Care Age Half Cases Doubt Habit Thousand Hundred Doctors Constitution Illness Recovery Former Our Time Latter Discretion Other Half One Half

Author:Petrarch

“Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which I by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations.”

“My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration.”

Ifs Feels Doe Has Beens Stills Different Matter Done Feelings Age Certain Emotion Struggle Thousand Intellectual Remains Ships Plenty Nuance Duration

Author:Ezra Pound

“A bloody and complete victory has sometimes yielded no more than the possession of the field and the loss of ten thousand men has sometimes been sufficient to destroy, in a single day, the work of ages.”

Men Sometimes Age Loss Fields Victory Thousand Ten Possession Sufficient Bloody

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“We need to have nature back in our atmosphere. There might be a turning point of going backward - within a few thousand years we are going back to the Stone Age! There are many scenarios [with] the robot technologies: Humans no longer need to walk; machines can produce products and food and everything. You might not be able to recognize what's false and what is real.”

Needs Years Humans Real Might Age Able Walks Technology Produce Products Thousand Stones Machines Atmosphere Thousand Years Robots Scenarios Turning Points Stone Age

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.”

Years Two Age Form Modern Middle Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years Middle Ages Hebrew

Author:Amos Oz

“The Vedic literatures predicted that after the advent of Lord Caitanya five hundred years ago, there would be a Golden Age of ten thousand years, when the chanting of the holy names of God would completely nullify all the degradations of the modern age, and real spiritual peace would come to this planet.”

“I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.”

Thinking Men Made Age Beautiful Gone Objects Ought Thousand Stones Skins Woods Bones Fabric Tribes Statues Ivory Fetish Prehistoric Stone Age Beautiful Objects Prehistoric Man African Tribes

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall.”

Men Humans Soul Age Spirit Culture Left Force Walks Watches Masters Wall Thousand Mysterious One Man Bows Defiance Ghetto Funk Indomitable Indomitable Spirit

Book:MILA 18

Source: MILA 18

“It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!”

Hard Age Today Stupid Thousand Blind Architecture Bored

Author:Andre Breton

“Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said.”

Years Said Age Acting Four Thousand Honey Thousand Years Pegasus

Book:The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War

Source: The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War

“One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.”

People World Ends Facts Reality Age Our Lives Written Achieve Thousand Connections Statements Greek Proven Astonishing Outside World Corridors

Author:J. K. Rowling

“The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value.”

“I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name of the Wind Like a hardbound brick of win. Story bling. Wanna swipe that thing Cause you see that boy is speeding Right through the book he’s reading. I’m hooked and I can’t stop pleading. Wanna curl up with that for ages, All thousand pages. Reviewers tried to warn me. But with that plot you hooked Me like Bradley. Ooh, crack that fat spine. You know I wanna make you mine. This book is stella ’cause it ain’t some quick novella.”

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