Average Quote by George Mikes

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if…

— Henry Adams

Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

— Mark Twain

“If two thousand five hundred languages are to be lost in the course of the twenty-first century, don’t be in any doubt about what…

— Andrew Dalby

“Beyond the first few thousand words of English, many words are expansions of more basic words through the addition of morphemes”

— Grabe

“over half the languages in the world, for example, have fewer than five thousand speakers, and over a thousand languages have under a dozen.”

— Nicholas Ostler

Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.

— Ian Mcewan

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he…

— Brooks Adams

One in a million just means there are seven hundred others just like you.

— Anonymous

One's too many and a hundred's not enough.

— Billy Wilder

Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.

— Wislawa Szymborska

“the difference between an American and an Englishman. An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years…

— Diana Gabaldon

“There are twenty-five thousand, six hundred and twelve things you don't know about me. I'll tell you one each day." "That means it will…

— Joey W. Hill