“YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.”
Indian Proverb
“You had better have one King than five hundred.”
Charles II
“And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.”
Bible
“I'm magnificent! I'm five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse.”
Julie Newmar
“Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.”
P. G. Wodehouse
“We expect, in the first year, to be in the hundreds of thousands of subscribers. In the second year, in the millions of subscribers. And we don't see why, in three to five years, we can't have tens of millions of subscribers.”
Mike Gaumond
