I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
Jackie Kennedy

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Horace Walpole

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

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Swami Vivekananda

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
Janis Joplin

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
Carl Jung

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
Richard Bach

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

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

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.
William Glasser

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

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
Virginia Woolf

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
Victor Hugo

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.
Judy Garland

Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls and ain't one of them got a stitch of clothes on.
Jeff Foxworthy

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
Robert M. Pirsig