Famous quotes containing the words losing, trick and/or count:
“When youre 50 you start thinking about things you havent thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanitybut actually its about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“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)
“When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)