Quotes
Quotes about Numbers
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
To add to golden numbers golden numbers.
Thoughts that voluntary move
Harmonious numbers.
By magic numbers and persuasive sound.
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows,
And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows;
But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,
The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.
When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,
The line too labours, and the words move slow:
Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,
Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,
I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
Now night descending, the proud scene was o'er,
But lived in Settle's numbers one day more.
Round numbers are always false.
In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.
One murder made a villain,
Millions a hero. Princes were privileged
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
"That's eight times to-day that you 've kissed me before."
"Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure,
For there's luck in odd numbers,"says Rory O'More.
He touched his harp, and nations heard, entranced,
As some vast river of unfailing source,
Rapid, exhaustless, deep, his numbers flowed
And opened new fountains in the human heart.
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
"Life is but an empty dream!"
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
How come wrong numbers are never busy?
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
The Sick Stag A sick stag lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, and each one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his use; so that he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the means of living. Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.
If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
Every day is a little life: and our whole life is but a day repeated, whence it is that old Jacob numbers his life by days; and Moses desires to be taught this point of holy arithmetic, to number not his years but his days. [And so, those] that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.
