Arithmetique Quotes

#1. The skill of making, and maintaining Common-wealths, consisteth in certain Rules, as doth Arithmetique and Geometry; not (as Tennis-play) on Practise onely: which Rules, neither poor men have the leisure, nor men that have had the leisure, have hitherto had the curiosity, or the method to find out.

Thomas Hobbes

#2. That moment you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone else is just getting on with their lives as though you didn't just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback

Anonymous

#3. The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

E. M. Forster

#4. landed on my chest and stuck its proboscis

Kevin Hearne

#5. Colonel Cathcart had courage and never hesitated to volunteer his men for any target available.

Joseph Heller

#6. Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, (or smiling) of something else.

Jane Austen

#7. Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.

Elizabeth Bowen

#8. The entire partying lifestyle was superficial in my experience, and most of my friendships were as deep as a shot glass and as short-lived as a pack of cigarettes.

Kate Madison

#9. a time to v keep silence, and a time to speak;

Anonymous

#10. For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

Aasif Mandvi

#11. It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're delayed. You're just making a fool of yourself.

Noel Coward

#12. Only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others.

Bill McKibben

#13. My clients don't pay me to feel sorry; they pay me to bring them money. I am tough, but I have a soft side.

Bill Gross

#14. We can all agree that tea is good for the body. However, tea is very good for our hair too.

Monica Millner

#15. It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#16. Make use of your friends by being of use to them.

Benjamin Franklin