One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
— Euripides
Irresistibly One Thousand quotations
I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.
Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces.
.. never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. That's the beauty of being alive... We can always start all over again. Enjoy God's amazing opportunities bestowed on us. Have faith in Him always.
Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine.
What you are, you are by accident of birth;
what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
You are not one you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern.
Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.
The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for;
it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.
There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one's experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action.
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.
The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem--he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.
God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest.
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness.
But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.
I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.
Let's try not to be exacting with other people, but rather to pass over in silence those thousand little annoyances that tend to irritate us. For we know that no one is perfect in this life, and we must put up with the defects of others as they put up with ours.
Salt, gathered from the tears of a thousand angels, restraining the essence of Sammael, the Hellhound. The Seed of Destruction. This I can promise, Sammael, for every one of you that falls, two shall arise.
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
I have some figures which compare the cost of one kilo of airplane compared to one kilo of rice. One kilo of airplane costs thirty thousand US dollars and one kilo of rice is seven cents. And if you want to pay for your one kilo of high-tech products with a kilo of rice, I don’t think we have enough.