Verbosity was an established Victorian trait.
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
One dog barks at something specific, and a hundred bark at the sound.
Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred others away.
I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.
May you live to be a hundred -- and decide then rest for yourself.
There are old men of three years old and children of a hundred.
Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years.
It is better to skip one meal than to consult a hundred doctors.
It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE
One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
One hundred fifty years is not long in the reckoning of a hill. But to a man it's long enough. One hundred fifty years is a week end to a redwood tree, but to a man it's two full lifetimes. One hundred fifty years is a twinkle to a star, but to a man...
Old Rose: Fifteen-hundred people went into the sea, when Titanic sank from under us. There were twenty boats floating nearby... and only one came back. One. Six were saved from the water, myself included. Six... out of fifteen-hundred. Afterward, the...
