“It is better to live ten years at a thousand [miles per hour] than a thousand years at a ten”
Lobão (1957) Brazilian musician
From the lyrics of his song Vida Louca, Vida (Life, Crazy Life)
Wolfgang Benz, A Concise History of the Third Reich, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press (2006) p. 20. Quote from January 30, 1933
1930s
“It is better to live ten years at a thousand [miles per hour] than a thousand years at a ten”
Lobão (1957) Brazilian musician
From the lyrics of his song Vida Louca, Vida (Life, Crazy Life)
“War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.”
Beilby Porteus (1731–1809) Bishop of Chester; Bishop of London
Source: Death: A Poetical Essay (1759), Line 178.
“Those families, you know, are our upper crust—not upper ten thousand.”
James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) American author
The Ways of the Hour (1850), Ch. 6
“And look upon you with ten thousand eyes
Till heaven wax'd blind, and till the world were done.”
Joshua Sylvester (1563–1618) English poet
Poem: Love's Omnipresence http://www.bartleby.com/106/25.html
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) American judge
Epigraph, Ch. 2 : Twenty Carats Fine.
Shadows of Shasta (1881)
Context: A thousand miles of mighty wood
Where thunder-storms stride fire-shod;
A thousand flowers every rod,
A stately tree on every rood;
Ten thousand leaves on every tree,
And each a miracle to me;
And yet there be men who question God!
Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826–1900) German socialist politician
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)
Li Bai (701–762) Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period
朝辞白帝彩云间,千里江陵一日还。
两岸猿声啼不住,轻舟已过万重山。
"Leaving the White Emperor Town for Jiangling", as translated by Xu Yuanchong in 300 Tang Poems: A New Translation, p. 92
John Steinbeck book The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
Introduction
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)