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  • Henry Louis Mencken One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Euripides One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Groucho Marx Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Sir William Watson Pain with the thousand teeth.
    Sir William Watson
    English poet (1858 - 1935)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Lord George Byron Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Henry Fielding Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Washington Irving Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Amy Lowell Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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  • Bob Nelson Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.
    Bob Nelson
    American comedian and actor (1958 - )
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  • Niels Bohr Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Napoleon Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Napoleon Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • William Faulkner 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.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Mark Twain The Bible has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Joan Baez The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.
    Joan Baez
    American singer, songwriter (1941 - )
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