Losing Trick Count

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

    “I won the battle the wrong way when our worthy Russian generals were losing it the right way.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “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)

    “I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life.... They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It’s wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.”
    —Elizabeth Janeway (b. 1913)