Net Loss

Famous quotes containing the words net and/or loss:

    “The history of literature—take the net result of Tiraboshi, Warton, or Schlegel,—is a sum of a very few ideas, and of very few original tales,—all the rest being variation of these.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)