Hundred Quotes - Page 21

• Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
  Tobacco, balloons, and steam,
  Are little events that have come to pass
  Since the days of the old regime.
  And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,
  I'd give--though it might seem bold--
  A hundred years of the Golden Age
  For a year of the Age of Gold.

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh

  Years, Giving, Age

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.28

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• In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,--islands in which the spice and perfume gardens of the world are embowered, and where the bird of paradise has its home, and the golden pheasant, and a hundred others of brilliant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant, and scenery so picturesque, that European strangers find there the fairy land of their youthful dreams.

  Frederick Marryat

  Dream, Lying, Home

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• Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.

  Christopher McDowell

  Life, Mother, Dream

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• Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Husband, Humility, Pride

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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• We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.

  Neil Gaiman

  Years, World, Finals

  "Signal to Noise". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1992.

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• All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Men, Voice

  "Breakfast Of Champions". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1973.

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• They could have given me any number. They could have given me number one-hundred one. The number is nothing. I could have played my whole career without a number
  on my back, and it still wouldn't have changed the person.

  Lou Whitaker

  Careers, Numbers, Given

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• I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Rocks, Years, Giving

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• I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with
  such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come. The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for
  this reason, the better.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Crush, Numbers, Giving

  Letter to Comrade Molotov for the Politburo on March 19, 1922. "The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive". Book by Richard Pipes, p. 152-154, 1996.

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• We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Mean, Order, Church

  Letter to Comrade Molotov for the Politburo, March 19, 1922.

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• Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Mother, Dog

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting a compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, College, Progress

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.84

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• Hate is a door with hundred locks and love is a hand with thousand keys!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Hate, Keys

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• To get married and have a family, is to grow up and mature. It's the only way. You can read philosophy books for a hundred years, but if you don't get married and have a family you will never get it. They soften you and shape you, mature you. Absolutely.

  Richard Matheson

  Growing Up, Philosophy, Book

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• One hundred and eighty, divided by three, is one dart at a time

  Sid Waddell

  Three, Divided, Eighty

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• I think I'm long past the days where I would go to the store and drop a couple hundred bucks on CDs, so my playlist is gonna be pretty long in the tooth.

  Dave Willis

  Couple, Past, Thinking

  "Random Rules: Dave Willis". Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. March 31, 2008.

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• I've got over three-hundred pairs of shoes back home - I'm twenty-four years old and I wear a size four, so all my shoes are just cheap.

  Rau'shee Warren

  Home, Years, Shoes

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• It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Country, Regret, Citizens

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• Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Dream, Food, Years

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2010). “A Handbook of Gastronomy”, p.393, Lulu.com

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• I quoted David Hare one of his lines the other day to illuminate whatever point we were trying to make in the conversation, and I said 'What play was that?' and he said 'It was your line, you said it about a hundred and fifty times in The Vertical Hour.'

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Trying, Fifty

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

  Horace

  Corn, Grind, Eating

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 210-15, Satires, I. 1. 45, 1922.

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• The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Eye, Violet, Vibrations

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• Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Blessing, Odes

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• When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

  Mark Twain

  Eight, Weather, Ideas

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.513, Courier Corporation

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• The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

  Douglas Adams

  Character, Numbers, Common Sense

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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