Extremely Large Numbers

Famous quotes containing the words extremely, large and/or numbers:

“My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.”
—Hannah More (1745–1833)

“To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.”
—Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)

“And when all bodies meet
In Lethe to be drowned,
Then only numbers sweet
With endless life are crowned.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)