Multiplication Table Quotes

#1. You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

#2. We middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

Margaret Deland

#3. I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

James A. Garfield

#4. The only thing you can be sure of in this world is the multiplication table.

L.M. Montgomery

#5. Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

David Hilbert

#6. A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.

J.G. Holland

#7. What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Wendell Phillips

#8. Warwick Castle, built of the very centuries, cannot be expected to alter with time's 'brief hours and weeks' - at least, with so few of them as fall to one poor mortal's lot. From visit to visit, I find it as unchanged as the multiplication table.

Katharine Lee Bates

#9. We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.

Henry Ford

#10. I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway.

Mark Twain

#11. The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Calvin Coolidge

#13. It seems, then, we are forced to believe in a real Right and Wrong. People may be sometimes mistaken about them, just as people sometimes get their sums wrong, but they are not a matter of mere taste and opinion any more than the multiplication table.

C.S. Lewis

#14. The whole world is a gigantic legacy. Imagine having to start afresh each generation: who would invent the wheel, devise the lever, construct the alphabet and multiplication table? I could not; could you?

Sydney J. Harris

#15. The other day I found this statement in a book. 'Her voice would have made the multiplication table charming!' I thought of it when I heard yours. I didn't believe it before, but I do now.

L.M. Montgomery

#16. Though he had both esteem and admiration for the sensibility of the human race, he had little respect for their intelligence: man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.
[Mr Harrington's washing]

W. Somerset Maugham

#17. What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

Andrew Lo

#18. Man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.

W. Somerset Maugham

#19. There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

Anton Chekhov

#20. All you fakers are in for it. I begged you on my knees and you didn't listen and now I can't hear you.

Charles Manson

#21. Everyone in this world is your kin, so be kind to everyone and rude to no one.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind; as are the legacies of those who flow with them.

Criss Jami

#23. To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.

T. Boone Pickens

#24. What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

Thomas Carlyle

#25. With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

Mignon McLaughlin

#26. In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

Laura Carmichael

#27. Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.

Napoleon Hill

#28. They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

Matthew Sweet

#29. The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Francis Bacon

#30. I cannot and will not raise money on Benghazi. I also advise my colleagues to follow suit.

Trey Gowdy

#31. Summer does something to the brain, " Beth said. "It's intoxicating. Everything shimmers

Elin Hilderbrand

#32. If you want to enjoy life more fully, the trick is to teach yourself to live in the insightful mode more often.

Cheryl Richardson

#33. If I'm an angel, paint me with black wings.

Anne Rice