Numbering Plan Area

Famous quotes containing the words numbering, plan and/or area:

“The task he undertakes
Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Solomon’s ... excess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have forty thousand stalls of horses,—he had unfortunately miscalculated his other wants, and so had seven hundred wives....
Wise—deluded man!”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)