Greatest Number

Famous quotes containing the words greatest and/or number:

“Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)

“Strange goings on! Jones did it slowly, deliberately, in the bathroom, with a knife, at midnight. What he did was butter a piece of toast. We are too familiar with the language of action to notice at first an anomaly: the ‘it’ of ‘Jones did it slowly, deliberately,...’ seems to refer to some entity, presumably an action, that is then characterized in a number of ways.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)