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)
“Its better to be fooled than to be suspiciousMthat the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“The days have outnumbered
my fingers and toes.
What can I count with now?
Saying this,
the naive girl cries.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)