Famous quotes containing the words losing, trick and/or count:
“The eager fate which carried thee
Took the largest part of me:
For this losing is true dying;
This is lordly mans down-lying,
This his slow but sure reclining,
Star by star his world resigning.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.”
—Angela Carter (19401992)
“It is the poor man wholl ever count his flock.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)