You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties arrogance and intimidation employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks elderly Jews and other minorities.
The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief.
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
Faith is a living daring confidence in God's grace so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan.
I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell and bursts into a thousand meanings.
God has cared for these trees saved them from drought disease avalanches and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby their morals ruined and talents irretrievably lost to society for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
If you decide to design your own language there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.
For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
I saw few die of hunger of eating a hundred thousand.
With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Also I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts but the truth is I really like doing them myself.