Extremely Large Numbers

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

    “Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason. Be upon your guard, too, against those who confess, as their weaknesses, all the cardinal virtues.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “Nowadays almost all man’s improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The forward Youth that would appear
    Must now forsake his Muses dear,
    Nor in the Shadows sing
    His Numbers languishing.”
    —Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)