Multitude Quotes

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. (Audrey Hepburn)
Riches cover a multitude of woes. View quote
Menander
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. View quote
Ben Jonson
It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. View quote
Thomas Sowell
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
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. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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. View quote
William Ellery Channing
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. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. View quote
Edmund Burke
You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins. View quote
Mae West
Charity creates a multitude of sins. (Oscar Wilde)
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me. View quote
Denis Diderot
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. View quote
William Wordsworth
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. View quote
Edmund Burke
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. View quote
Adam Ferguson
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. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy. View quote
Chrysippus
An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
Happier of happy though I be, like them; I cannot take possession of the sky, Mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, One of a mighty multitude whose way; And motion is a harmony and dance; Magnificent. View quote
William Wordsworth
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. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude. Pharisees - that is to say, friars. (Leonardo da Vinci)
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. View quote
Saul Bellow
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. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food. View quote
Ferran Adria
The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt. View quote
Francis Parkman