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 count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)