Quotes about Multitude

This many-headed monster, Multitude. Votes: 3

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet. Votes: 3

The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers. Votes: 3

Riches cover a multitude of woes. Votes: 2

Charity creates a multitude of sins. Votes: 2

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. Votes: 2

Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins. Votes: 2

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. Votes: 2

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. Votes: 2

Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.' Votes: 2

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older. Votes: 2

As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. Votes: 2

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. Votes: 2

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war. Votes: 2

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit. Votes: 2

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training. Votes: 2

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. Votes: 2

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes. Votes: 2

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. Votes: 2

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. Votes: 2

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. Votes: 2

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me. Votes: 2

Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important things that you can know. It is also something that you can see for yourself is true. Votes: 2

Being in the public eye is part of what I do, and taking on a multitude of different projects - television, radio, fashion, writing or deep-sea diving - is a blessing. It is also how I pay my bills and fund my own skating, as I don't have a sponsor or financial help from my federation. Votes: 2

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation. Votes: 2

The multitude is always wrong. Votes: 0

Make-up covers a multitude of sins. Votes: 0

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins. Votes: 0

Success covers a multitude of blunders. Votes: 0

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Votes: 0

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness Votes: 0

A multitude of books distracts the mind. Votes: 0

Trees cover up a multitude of sins. Votes: 0

A multitude of people and yet solitude. Votes: 0

The multitude is always in the wrong. Votes: 0

Love covers a multitude of sins… Votes: 0

The multitude of books is making us ignorant. Votes: 0

The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions. Votes: 0

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins. Votes: 0

Lying covers a multitude of sins - temporarily. Votes: 0

One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances. Votes: 0

A soft landing covers a multitude of sins. Votes: 0

What is any ocean but a multitude of drops? Votes: 0

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude. Votes: 0

The multitude of people fail because they talk failure. Votes: 0

The ready apology covers a multitude of social sins. Votes: 0

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. Votes: 0

A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered. Votes: 0

I will build a car for the great multitude. Votes: 0

Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised. Votes: 0

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced. Votes: 0

An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins. Votes: 0

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion. Votes: 0

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. Votes: 0

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion. Votes: 0

Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons. Votes: 0

The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders. Votes: 0

Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins. Votes: 0

Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws. Votes: 0

In my 90-plus years, I have lived a multitude of lives. Votes: 0

What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so. Votes: 0

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind. Votes: 0

If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy. Votes: 0

Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt. Votes: 0

Kindness is a currency that can cover a multitude of interpersonal debts. Votes: 0

Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous. Votes: 0

Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you. Votes: 0

Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing? Votes: 0

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words. Votes: 0

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few. Votes: 0

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form. Votes: 0

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend. Votes: 0

We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe. Votes: 0

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity. Votes: 0

Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude... Votes: 0

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. Votes: 0

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears. Votes: 0

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity. Votes: 0

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues. Votes: 0

Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles. Votes: 0

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Votes: 0

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men. Votes: 0

A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitude of funerals a doctor Votes: 0

To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters. Votes: 0

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few. Votes: 0

And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain. Votes: 0

The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health. Votes: 0

Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins. Votes: 0

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom. Votes: 0

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it. Votes: 0

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me. Votes: 0

The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us Votes: 0

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. Votes: 0

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude. Votes: 0

That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. Votes: 0

It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. Votes: 0

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude. Votes: 0

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day. Votes: 0

We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it. Votes: 0

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. Votes: 0

Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself. Votes: 0

It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life. Votes: 0

I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude. Votes: 0

We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude. [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.] Votes: 0

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways. Votes: 0

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone. Votes: 0

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities. Votes: 0

It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested. Votes: 0

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous. Votes: 0

He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect. Votes: 0

When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. Votes: 0

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. Votes: 0

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing. Votes: 0

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. Votes: 0

In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time. Votes: 0

The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good. [Lat., Neque mala, vel bona, quae vulgus putet.] Votes: 0

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom. Votes: 0

I call my putter 'Sweet Charity' because it covers such a multitude of sins from tee to green. Votes: 0

The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced. Votes: 0

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. Votes: 0

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude. Votes: 0

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. Votes: 0

An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages. Votes: 0

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude. Votes: 0

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen. Votes: 0

Sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around. Votes: 0

The strength of God will enable us, a small but faithful band, to overcome the multitude of the faithless. Votes: 0

In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults. Votes: 0

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one. Votes: 0

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary. Votes: 0

The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems. Votes: 0

Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill. Votes: 0

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. Votes: 0

MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. Votes: 0

Where we sail and anchor our heart fill up the multitude odyssey paving to the coming home of our soul. Votes: 0

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady. Votes: 0

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor. Votes: 0

I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines Votes: 0

All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. Votes: 0

Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind! Votes: 0

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness. Votes: 0

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose. Votes: 0

Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. Votes: 0

Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation. Votes: 0

Our nation is ripe with a multitude of successful people, who have achieved much for themselves with little impact on anyone else Votes: 0

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins. Votes: 0

A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables." Votes: 0

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. Votes: 0

There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is LOYALTY. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses. Votes: 0

There are a multitude of mothers in the world who have a daughter who is stolen, or who are stolen daughters themselves. Votes: 0

You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude. Votes: 0

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. Votes: 0

They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty. Votes: 0

I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths. Votes: 0

Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.' Votes: 0

The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine. Votes: 0

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops? Votes: 0

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli. Votes: 0

Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be. Votes: 0

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things. Votes: 0

Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness. Votes: 0

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy. Votes: 0

Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned and derided. Votes: 0

Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food. Votes: 0

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire. Votes: 0

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong Votes: 0

"Love covers a multitude of sins," (I Pet. 4:8). That is, for love towards one's neighbor, God forgives the sins of the one who loves. Votes: 0

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes. Votes: 0

It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when men change. Votes: 0

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument. Votes: 0

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now. Votes: 0

The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. Votes: 0

There was a multitude of sexual scenarios, from asimple one-on-one couple fucking like bunnies to anoutright orgy with no less than eight people joined likeLEGOs. Votes: 0

If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a multitude. Votes: 0

I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates. Votes: 0

Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me. Votes: 0

The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people. Votes: 0

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts. Votes: 0

Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude. Votes: 0

People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty. Votes: 0

But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones. Votes: 0

The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of its members. Votes: 0

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry. Votes: 0

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers. Votes: 0

One who changes a body from the error of the way not only brings peace and harmony but saves a soul and covers a multitude of shortcomings. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be,-- Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the good. Votes: 0

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people. Votes: 0

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary. Votes: 0

Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them. Votes: 0

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul! Votes: 0

A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be expressed lucidly in 200 words. Votes: 0

Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes. Votes: 0

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life. Votes: 0

The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come forth from that love. Votes: 0

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude. Votes: 0

Plato ... says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution. Votes: 0

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason. Votes: 0

Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members. Votes: 0

We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek. Votes: 0

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude. Votes: 0

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants. Votes: 0

The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow? Votes: 0

Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought. Votes: 0

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits. Votes: 0

The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude. Votes: 0

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused. Votes: 0

A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible. Votes: 0

Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers. Votes: 0

I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins. Votes: 0

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes. Votes: 0

In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination of the multitude; all energetic passions are directed towards it. Votes: 0

On the top of Cadair Idris,I felt how happy a man might bewith a little money and a sane intellect,and reflected with astonishment and pityon the madness of the multitude. Votes: 0

When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain. Votes: 0

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government. Votes: 0

Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it. Votes: 0

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally. Votes: 0

If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery. Votes: 0

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world. Votes: 0

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest. Votes: 0

In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most people the brain functions effectively and unceasingly for more than 60 years. Votes: 0

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war. Votes: 0

The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including the skill of repeating patriotic slogans on timely occasions. Votes: 0

Some time ago, I investigated the possibility that a computer might be able to reconstruct a picture from sets of very accurate X-ray measurements taken through the body at a multitude of different angles. Votes: 0

Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this way it is possible to create work that refers the time span. Votes: 0

Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about enough of the prime necessity to form their character. Votes: 0

I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life. Votes: 0

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle. Votes: 0

God forbid that all children, of whom daily so great a multitude die, would perish, but that also for these, the merciful God, who wishes no one to perish, has procured some remedy unto salvation.... Votes: 0

When people begin to praise us, let us hurry to remember the multitude of ours transgressions, and we will see that we are truly unworthy of that which they say and do in our honor. Votes: 0

No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful. Votes: 0

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right. Votes: 0

The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened. Votes: 0

Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards. Votes: 0

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. Votes: 0

Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance. Votes: 0

I'm not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute message on 'how to cope' to a multitude of people who are dying and going to hell. I tremble at the thought. Votes: 0

Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use. Votes: 0

Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of businessmen appearing as a conglomeration of many different and divergent groups and interests. Votes: 0

Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals. Votes: 0

Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that has impelled them into the arcane and esoteric. Votes: -1