quotes about Multitudes
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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
-- Anthony BourdainSource : Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.133, A&C Black
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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.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.
-- Blaise Pascal -
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Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.
-- Brent Weeks -
Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.
-- Carolyn WellsSource : Carolyn Wells (1908). “The Carolyn Wells Year Book of Old Favorites and New Fancies for 1909”
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A multitude of small delights constitute happiness
-- Charles BaudelaireSource : Charles Baudelaire (1951). “My heart laid bare, and other prose writings”
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If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.
-- Chrysippus -
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What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
-- David Mitchell -
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
-- Edmund Burke -
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.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
-- Frederick Douglass -
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Success covers a multitude of blunders.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
-- Jeremy CollierSource : Jeremy Collier (1722). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: In Two Parts. ...”
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There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.
-- Jerry Saltz -
It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.
-- John Henry JowettSource : John Henry Jowett (1910). “The School of Calvary”
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Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
-- Joseph Joubert -
And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.
-- Li-Young LeeSource : Li-Young Lee (1990). “The City in which I Love You: Poems”, p.57, BOA Editions, Ltd.
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What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.
-- Oswald SpenglerSource : Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.394, Oxford University Press, USA
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Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
-- Ovid -
This many-headed monster, Multitude.
-- Samuel DanielSource : Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...”, p.47
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
-- Saul Bellow -
The multitude of people fail because they talk failure.
-- T. B. Joshua -
The multitude is always wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon -
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Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.
-- William Goyen -
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.
-- Richard HookerSource : 'Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity' (1593) bk. 1, ch. 1, sect. 1
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We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.
-- John Leo