Similar Quantities

Famous quotes containing the words similar and/or quantities:

    “Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Job, 3:3.

    A similar imprecation is found in Jeremiah 20:14-15.

    “The Walrus and the Carpenter
    Were walking close at hand:
    They wept like anything to see
    Such quantities of sand:
    “If this were only cleared away,”
    They said, “it would be grand!”
    “If seven maids with seven mops
    Swept it for half a year,
    Do you suppose,” the Walrus said,
    “That they could get it clear?”
    “I doubt it,” said the Carpenter,
    And shed a bitter tear.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)