Losing Trick Count

Famous quotes containing the words losing, trick and/or count:

    “Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
    Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
    Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
    Remembered tolling a departing friend.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn’t learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?”
    —Storm Jameson (1891–1986)

    “We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)