Numbers

Famous quotes containing the word numbers:

“One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow.”
—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)

“Out of the darkness where Philomela sat,
Her fairy numbers issued. What then ailed me?
My ears are called capacious but they failed me,
Her classics registered a little flat!
I rose, and venomously spat.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

“Green grow the rushes-O
What is your one-O?”
—Unknown. Carol of the Numbers (l. 2–3)