Famous quotes containing the words port and/or numbers:
“In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Green grow the rushes-O
What is your one-O?”
—Unknown. Carol of the Numbers (l. 23)
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