The multitude is always in the wrong. [ Wentworth Dillon ]
The multitude are ruled by prejudices. [ Voltaire ]
A multitude of books distracts the mind. [ Seneca ]
Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. [ St. Peter ]
Hark to that shrill, sudden shout,
The cry of an applauding multitude,
Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields,
The living mass as if he were its soul! [ William Cullen Bryant ]
The multitude of offenders is their protection. [ Proverb ]
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. [ St. Augustine ]
The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions. [ Virgil ]
Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. [ Bible ]
Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro as this multitude. [ William Shakespeare ]
That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. [ Pascal ]
Through the arts the wonder of the ignorant multitude is excited. [ Anaxilaus ]
That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. [ Lowell ]
The multitude unawed is insolent; Once seized with fear, contemptible and vain. [ Mallet ]
The blind monster with uncounted heads, the still discordant, wavering multitude. [ William Shakespeare ]
Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends, has never had one. [ Coleridge ]
Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude. [ William Shakespeare ]
Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles. [ W. B. Clulow ]
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part; the rest are confounded with the multitude. [ Voltaire ]
A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude. [ Addison ]
There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually can become right merely by their multitude. [ Ruskin ]
Applause waits on success: the fickle multitude, like the light straw that floats along the street, glide with the current still, and follow fortune. [ Franklin ]
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants. [ Johnson ]
The useful encourages itself; for the multitude produce it, and no one can dispense with it: the beautiful must be encouraged; for few can set it forth, and many need it. [ Goethe ]
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes. [ George Washington ]
What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision! [ Charnock ]
Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold, a woman adds to it her sympathy. A small sum in the hands of a woman does more good than a hundred times as much in the hands of a man. Feminine charity renews every day the miracle of Christ feeding a multitude with a few loaves and fishes. [ E. Legouve ]
Wise men, for the most part, are silent at present, and good men powerless; the senseless vociferate, and the heartless govern; while all social law and providence are dissolved by the enraged agitation of a multitude, among whom every villain has a chance of power, every simpleton of praise, and every scoundrel of fortune. [ John Ruskin ]
The mother, under whose sole influence the child is for years, from whom it acquires its tastes and character, should not only be educated, but educated in the most thorough manner, and have her mind stored with varied learning, so that she may be able to answer the multitude of questions that will be put to her by her inquisitive child on art, science, literature, and religion, and thus to stimulate his curiosity, and awaken his mind. [ E. B. Ramsay ]