Best Ten Thousand Proverbs

290 Ten Thousand quotes by 224 unique authors

Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come back we will go out together, we will walk out together among, the ten thousand… — Galway Kinnell
There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too… — Katherine Dunn
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived… — Nicholas Sparks
One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms. — H. L. Mencken
Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and… — Douglas Coupland
Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well. — T.E. Lawrence
That depends on the man. I like breasts myself. A nice rack goes a long way in getting me to do just about anything. Even… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a… — Nelson Algren
Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one. — Rumi
His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers. — Chuck Palahniuk
But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I… — Ray Bradbury
Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of… — Daniel Defoe
For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features of men’s faces. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers… — Philip Roth
But this man had set down with a hammer and chisel and carved out a stone water trough to last ten thousand years. Why was… — Cormac McCarthy
From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most… — Richard P. Feynman
Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can… — Charles Bukowski
To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time,… — Beryl Markham
As they embrace, she kisses him full on the mouth. And suddenly sticks her tongue right in. She has done this before, often. It’s one… — Christopher Isherwood
It doesn't matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight, then he will… — Hans Fallada
and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song — Rainer Maria Rilke
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people… — Sinclair Lewis
Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people… — Nora Roberts
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite -… — Henry David Thoreau
You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual… — Haruki Murakami

Who Wrote These Ten Thousand Quotes

224 authors contributed a total of 290 Ten Thousand Quotes, led by these top contributors:

Best Ten Thousand Proverbs

More Ways to Read Ten Thousand Quotes

Who Wrote These Ten Thousand Quotes