Arithmeticians Quotes

#1. And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers.

Walter Scott

#2. [Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.'

W. W. Rouse Ball

#3. The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.

Charles Dickens

#4. I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

Patti Davis

#5. Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.

P.G. Wodehouse

#6. All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.

Thomas Carlyle

#7. Daisy: "My scar is bigger than your scar."
Ryke: "And my cock is bigger than your cock.

Krista Ritchie

#8. The famous names throughout history-be they heroes or villains-if they accomplished anything notable, they were passionate. Passion is what drives those who accomplish momentous feats, for good or evil.

Andrew Williams

#9. Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

Mike Royko

#10. Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

Bill Ayers

#11. She shouldn't take any notice of what those muppets think, says Granny. Because all the best people are different - look at superheroes.

Fredrik Backman

#12. The best kind of praise is intelligent praise.

Rachel Heffington

#13. Roll me in sugar and call me a fuckin jelly-doughnut!

Stephen King

#14. In the end, this sort of ban can only be accomplished in one way, and that's if gun advocates get behind it.

Stephen King

#15. It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

David Nicholls

#16. Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

Margaret Halsey

#17. I've got a better idea. I'll stay here and you can sit on my face while I eat my way to your heart.

Suzanne Wright

#18. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Winston Churchill