A drop of ink may make a million think. [ Byron ]
And O the buttercups! that field
O' the cloth of gold, where pennons swam -
Where France set up his lilied shield,
His oriflamb,
And Henry's lion-standard rolled:
What was it to their matchless sheen,
Their million million drops of gold
Among the green! [ Jean Ingelow ]
No grain of sand
But moves a bright and million-peopled land,
And hath its Eden and its Eves, I deem. [ Blanchard ]
And a million horrible bellowing echoes broke
From the red-ribbed hollow behind the wood.
And thundered up into heaven. [ Tennyson ]
A prince wants a million, a beggar but a groat. [ Proverb ]
The million covet wealth, but how few dream of its perils? [ John Neal ]
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million. [ Lavater ]
Civil wars of France made a million of atheists, and thirty thousand witches. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Why Mammon sits before a million hearths Where God is bolted out from every house. [ Bailey ]
A small number of men and women think for the million; through them the million speak and act. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college. [ Wendell Phillips ]
When the million applaud you, seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good! [ Colton ]
When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way. [ Thackeray ]
Nature works very hard, and only hits the white once in a million throws. In mankind, she is contented if she yields one master in a century. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million, count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]
It is a mathematical demonstration, that these twenty-six letters admit of so many changes in their order, and make such a long roll of differently-ranged alphabets, not two of which are alike, that they could not all be exhausted though a million millions of writers should each write above a thousand alphabets a day for the space of a million millions of years. [ R. Bentley ]