Losing Trick Count

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 man’s down-lying,
    This his slow but sure reclining,
    Star by star his world resigning.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “People who 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)

    “While fortune smiles, you’ll count your friends by scores;
    If the sky clouds over, you will be alone.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)