For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the sc...riptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they could not pay, he canceled the d...ebts for both of them. Now which of them will love him more?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ordinary People ... are so used to be dazled [sic] with Riches, that they pay as much Deference to the Understanding of a Man of a...n Estate, as of a Man of Learning; and are very hardly brought to regard any Truth, how important soever it may be, that is preached to them, when they know there are several Men of five hundred a Year who do not believe it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through eating, without being m...ade the subject of a psychological seminar of child-welfare experts, and written up, along with five hundred other children of three who have put their hands to their mouths for the same reason.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perf...ectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtues... are economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No, the five hundred was the sum they named To pay the doctor's bill and tide me over.... It's that or fight, and I don't want to fight I just want to get settled in my life....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Italy, for thirty years, under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leo...nardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »