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Thousand Quotes - Page 6

Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy.

Gershon Legman (1982). “No laughing matter: an analysis of sexual humor”, Indiana Univ Pr

Thousand points of light.

Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler”, p.469

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.

Philip Massinger (1761). “Dramatic Works: The guardian. A very woman. The old law. The city madam. Poems on several occasions”, p.177

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

"‘Enlightened,’Girls’ And ‘Homeland’: Mike White On How His HBO Show Measures Up" by Maureen Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?

John Millington Synge (2014). “Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows”, p.98, Bloomsbury Publishing

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

John Fowles, Barry Brukoff (1980). “The Enigma of Stonehenge”, Simon & Schuster