I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
Babe Ruth

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
W. E. B. Du Bois

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Saint Teresa of Avila

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
Harriet Tubman

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
George Santayana

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

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
Jack Kevorkian

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
Sitting Bull

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

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
Herbert Hoover

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
Will Durant

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
Jim Valvano

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Herman Melville

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
Charles Baudelaire

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
E. O. Wilson

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

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Christian Nestell Bovee