Time Number

Famous quotes containing the words time and/or number:

    [I]f our reader should be neither informed nor amused, we shall be very sorry for his loss of time as well as our own.
    Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

    My tendency to nervousness in my younger days, in view of the fact of a number of near relatives on both my father’s and mother’s side of the house having become insane, gave some serious uneasiness. I made up my mind to overcome it.... In the cross-examination of witnesses before a crowded court-house ... I soon found I could control myself even in the worst of testing cases. Finally, in battle.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)