Famous quotes containing the words sum of money, sum of, sum and/or money:
“Wonderful “Force of Public Opinion!” We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realise the sum of money, the degree of “influence” it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“but Overall is beyond me: is the sum of these events
I cannot draw, the ledger I cannot keep, the accounting
beyond the account:”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)
“They are but beggars that can count their worth,
But my true love is grown to such excess
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Words are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)