It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them

I’ve had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I’ve had jokes stolen from me in the club when I’m next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I’ll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don’t know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.

I think that a picture can tell a thousand words, and none of them can be right. Or true.

Life’s a game and men the gamblers. They’ll stake their whole pile on the one chance in a thousand. Take away that one chance, and – they won’t play.

In face of the facts that modern man lives more wretchedly than the cave-man, and that his producing power is a thousand times greater than that of the cave-man, no other conclusion is possible than that the capitalist class has mismanaged, that you have mismanaged, my masters, that you have criminally and selfishly mismanaged.

I think escape is sort of like coming to a show with ten thousand other people and responding to that moment. Sharing that moment – that’s escape

It’s colder than the hinges of hell a thousand years before the first fire was lighted.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million

It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us

So I travelled, stopping ever and again, in great strides of a thousand years or more, drawn on by the mystery of the earth’s fate, watching with a strange fascination the sun grow larger and duller in the westward sky, and the life of the old earth ebbing out.

In the past century, there were more changes than in the previous thousand years. The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.

I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.

I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.

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

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.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999 follow women.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

You’d have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what its like to be me!!

Ideas are like frog eggs: you’ve got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years. (Upon exiting the Lascaux cave, France)

When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.

Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once.

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

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.