Quotes with hundred

  • The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
  • And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while.
  • It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
  • Around the pillars of the palm-tree bower The orchids cling, in rose and purple spheres; Shield-broad the lily floats; the aloe flower Foredates its hundred years.
  • Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
  • I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
  • Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
  • America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
  • Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
  • Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.
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  • Hunter S. Thompson America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Charles Kingsley Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Sun Tzu If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Thomas Jefferson When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred;
    Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution FOREWORD, p. v
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Laurence Sterne 'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Wyndham Lewis A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Charles Lamb A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Mario Puzo A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Joyce Carey A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
    Joyce Carey
     
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  • Joyce Cary A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry, a hundred in dress.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Bob Mayer A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Samuel Butler A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Arthur Koestler A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Anna Jameson All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909 - 1993)
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