Famous quotes containing the words losing, trick and/or count:
“Building up a family’s fortune is like moving earth with a needle, but losing a family’s fortune can be as swift as a boat rushing downstream with the current.”
—Chinese proverb.
“People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
“Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens
Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p’raps a Duke of
Dickens—”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)