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Mille viae ducunt homines per s×cula Romam. Throughout the ages, a thousand roads lead to Rome.

-Alan of Lille also known as  'Alanus de Insulis'
  Liber Parabolarum, ch.3, l.56.

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of townTuesday.

-Algren, Nelson
In Malcolm Crowley (ed)  Writers at Work (1958).

If we could all live a thousand years†we would each, at least once during that period, be considered a genius.

-Berger,John Peter
  G, pt.3, ch.6.

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 84:10.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 90:4.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 91:3^7.

One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Peter 3:8^9.

And helaid hold onthedragon, thatoldserpent, whichis the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 20:2^3.

Every time I leave the old man I feel like a thousand dollars.

-O'Connor, Frank pseudonym of  Michael O'Donovan
  Of Yeats. Quoted in RichardEllmannYeats: theMan and the Masks (1948).

Let me say it again, I don't believe in black majority rule ever in Rhodesia. Not in a thousand years.

-Smith, Ian Douglas
  Radio broadcast, 20 Mar.

Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.

-Wesley, Charles
  'Lo! He Comes'. In Hymns of Intercession for all Mankind.

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