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

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

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

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

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

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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides

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

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

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

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
Ray Bradbury

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

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Ludwig van Beethoven

I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living.
Jim Cramer

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 can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
Carl Sandburg

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

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