Famous quotes containing the words smallest and/or number:
“The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favour.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)