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.
“It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“I came as census-taker to the waste
To count the people in it and found none,
None in the hundred miles, none in the house....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)