Quotes
Quotes about Arithmetic
"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
Every day is a little life: and our whole life is but a day repeated, whence it is that old Jacob numbers his life by days; and Moses desires to be taught this point of holy arithmetic, to number not his years but his days. [And so, those] that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stonesâmaybe only the stonesâunderstood.
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
Why, 'a stalks up and down like a peacock--a stride and a stand; ruminates like an hostess that hath no arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning; bites his lip with a politic regard, as who should say, 'There were wit in this head an 'twould out'; and so there is, but it lies as coldly in him as fire in a flint, which will not show without knocking.
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
