Multitudes Quotes

The multitude of people fail because they talk failure.

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

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

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

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

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

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

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

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.

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

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

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

I am large, I contain multitudes

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

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

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

I will build a car for the great multitude.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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

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

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.

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

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

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.

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

A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.

All go free when multitudes offend.

This many-headed monster, Multitude.

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.

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

The multitude is always wrong.

Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.

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

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.

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.

There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.

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.