Number Passed

Famous quotes containing the words number and/or passed:

“How often should a woman be pregnant? Continually, or hardly ever? Or must there be a certain number of pregnancy anniversaries established by fashion? What do you, at the age of forty-three, have to say on the subject? Is it a fact that the laws of nature, or of the country, or of propriety, have ordained this time of life for sterility?”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)