What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered, and measured; and the vocation to which he considered himself called was, to weigh, number and measure as many of those objects as his allotted three-score years and ten would permit. This conviction biased all his doings, alike his great scientific enterprises, and the petty details of his daily life.
If tournament popularity was the most important consideration, then I think we would create a Smash Bros game that included a multitude of fast moves with complicated controls. However, I believe this is actually the greatest shortcoming of fighting games at present, and that is the reason why I don’t do it.
There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.
Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.
The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of its members.
We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a multitude of situations that can arise in a person's life. The beauty of them is that their analogies resonate so deeply and they also entertain while they teach.
The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.
We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.
I'm not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute message on 'how to cope' to a multitude of people who are dying and going to hell. I tremble at the thought.
A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!
Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill.
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.