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Quotes about Numbers


Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.

William Shakespeare

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. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act v. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.

Philip Massinger

By magic numbers and persuasive sound.

William Congreve

Round numbers are always false.

Samuel Johnson

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

George Washington

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Colman Voltaire

Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.

George Crabbe

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