Quotes of Throng - somelinesforyou

“ No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much. ”

- John Dryden

“ Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous — who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves? ”

- John Keats

“ The mob has many heads but no brains. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Success covers a multitude of blunders. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it. ”

- W. C. Fields

“ I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. ”

- Bible

“ Television is a weapon of mass distractrion. ”

- Larry Gelbart

“ Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins. ”

- Sir Charles Napier

“ The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd. ”

- R. S. Donnell

“ And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. ”

- Bible

“ It is the Mass the matters. ”

- Augustine Birrell

“ Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ”

- George Herbert

“ Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. ”

- George Washington

“ The tyranny of the multitude is a multiplied tyranny. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. ”

- Ben Hecht

“ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. ”

- Bible

“ Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ We are governed not by armies, but by ideas. ”

- Mona Caird

“ One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. ”

- Bible

“ And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine. ”

- Bible

“ Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate; Armies won battles when he spoke, And out of Chaos sprang the state. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. ”

- Max Beerbohm
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