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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil
to one who is striking at the root.
- Henry David Thoreau

God has cared for these trees,
saved them from drought, disease, avalanches,
and a thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from fools.
- John Muir

Victory has a thousand fathers,
but defeat is an orphan.
- John F. Kennedy

There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving

To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

If you may count every drop of water in the ocean and
count every grain of sand in the sea -
multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.
- George of Langkloof

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes,
I had one thousand and sixty.
- Imelda Marcos

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment
and the other by acts of love. Power based on love
is a thousand times more effective and permanent
then the one derived from fear of punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha

If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry.
One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed.
These are fearful odds.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Though we may know Him by a thousand names,
He is one and the same to us all.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers,
and failure is an orphan.
- Alan Price

A picture is worth a thousand words.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding
and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
- Amy Lowell

It is a thousand times better to have common sense
without education than to have education without common sense.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must
be taken one step at a time.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell.
Not being guilty, you will have the freshness
of dewdrops in the early morning sun,
you will have the freshness of lotus petals in the lake,
you will have the freshness of the stars in the night.
Once guilt disappears you will have
a totally different kind of life, luminous and radiant.
You will have a dance to your feet
and your heart will be singing a thousand and one songs.
- Osho

Faith is a living and unshakable confidence,
a belief in the grace of God so assured that
a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.
- Martin Luther

I try to give to the poor people for love
what the rich could get for money.
No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds;
yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- Mother Teresa

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye;
Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
- Guru Nanak

If you have ten thousand regulations
you destroy all respect for the law.
- Winston Churchill

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers,
but because of that, my obligation to serve God is
also that of a thousand bloggers.
- Mickey Kaus

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

And when you really think about the 9-11 event,
the horrific attack on our land here in America and
the death of three thousand of out loved ones,
it was a defining moment.
- Donald Evans

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre.
I have copied everything in drawing,
trying to understand.
- Alberto Giacometti

Christianity, democracy, science, education,
wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years,
have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
- Ralph A. Cram

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
- Hans Frank

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions
which the individual can never trace back to their origins,
and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.
- Georg Simmel

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world.
Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you
can buy at a cost of $1000,
and sell a thousand of them.
- Jerry Gillies

I went out there for a thousand a week,
and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday.
The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.
- Nelson Algren

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was
necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
- Horace Walpole

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family.
That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future.
That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.
- Thomas Carper

There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud,
ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.
- Matt Drudge

Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have
built? No more than 5,000 in five years.
Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand.
- Mary Landrieu

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding
on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
- Harriet Van Horne

Any fact is better established by two or three good
testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
- Marie Dressler

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil
and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others,
than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
- John Flavel

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles,
and still stay where you are.
- Harry Chapin

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to
extort money from a woman.
He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars.
He is in prison now.
It was on Sally.
- Michael Biehn

Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires
to every candidate running for office.
- Betty Hill

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute,
day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
- Stephen Vincent Benet

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times,
but a good press agent can do even better.
- Fred Allen

In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple
of thousand dollars on the cr side.
- Ezra Cornell

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years
without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
- Paul Cezanne

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
- Joseph Addison

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to
sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.
- Neil Innes

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking;
it's easy.
I've done it a thousand times.
- W. C. Fields

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year,
the very least I could do was hit .400.
- Ted Williams

Three thousand, it's just a number.
It's just a game.
- Rafael Palmeiro

A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.
- Mario Puzo

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

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times,
you can still bring something of your own to it.
I'd like to think I did that.
- Etta James

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand,
but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
- Plato

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand
persons who have mastered only the contents of books,
but no one can get anything out of life without God.
- Meister Eckhart

At present there is no distinction among the upper
ten thousand of the city.
- Nathaniel Parker Willis

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War,
the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages,
and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.
- Jean-Marie Le Pen

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote
but ten thousand or a million.
- David R. Brower

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language,
I can treat the line in one thousand different ways,
with many different reactions.
- Chow Yun-Fat

We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the
gear up and we did two tracks.
A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day.
- Georgie Fame

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball.
I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
- Hank Aaron