Time Number

Famous quotes containing the words time and/or number:

“How often should a woman be pregnant? Continually, or hardly ever? Or must there be a certain number of pregnancy anniversaries established by fashion? What do you, at the age of forty-three, have to say on the subject? Is it a fact that the laws of nature, or of the country, or of propriety, have ordained this time of life for sterility?”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)