Thousand
The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects.
Hence, indefinitely, a great number.
A symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1,000, M or CI/.
Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred.
Hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely.
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Thousand Quotations
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
Winston Churchill
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn Monroe
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Benjamin Franklin
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
Thousand Translations
thousand in Afrikaans is duisend
thousand in Danish is tusinde
thousand in Dutch is duizend
thousand in Finnish is tuhat
thousand in German is tausend
thousand in Italian is mille
thousand in Norwegian is tusen
thousand in Portuguese is mil
thousand in Spanish is mil
thousand in Swedish is tusen, tusental
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