(95 quotes found)
“You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.”
Mae West
“Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.”
William Allen White
“Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.”
“Do I contradict myself? Very well thenI contradict myselfI am large, I contain multitudes.”
Walt Whitman
“The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, "That is all there was!" But twist”
Victor Hugo
“He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.”
William Saroyan
“Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?”
Alexander The Great
“The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.”
Bible
“A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.”
Saul Bellow
“Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom (Job 32:7).”
