Losing Trick Count

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

    Losing face is as important to people as losing bark is to a tree.
    Chinese proverb.

    Nor let his Love enchant your generous Mind;
    ‘Tis Natures trick to propagate her Kind.
    Our fond Begetters, who would never die,
    Love but themselves in their Posterity.
    John Dryden (1631–1700)

    Every country has its own constitution; ours is absolutism moderated by assassination.
    —Anonymous Russian. Quoted in Count Münster, Political Sketches of the State of Europe 1814-1867 (1868)