Quotes
Quotes about Quantity
Forty thousand brothers
Could not, with all their quantity of love,
Make up my sum.
The Boy and the Filberts A boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment. A bystander said to him, Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand. Do not attempt too much at once.
The Salt Merchant and His Ass A peddler drove his Ass to the seashore to buy salt. His road home lay across a stream into which his Ass, making a false step, fell by accident and rose up again with his load considerably lighter, as the water melted the sack. The Peddler retraced his steps and refilled his panniers with a larger quantity of salt than before. When he came again to the stream, the Ass fell down on purpose in the same spot, and, regaining his feet with the weight of his load much diminished, brayed triumphantly as if he had obtained what he desired. The Peddler saw through his trick and drove him for the third time to the coast, where he bought a cargo of sponges instead of salt. The Ass, again playing the fool, fell down on purpose when he reached the stream, but the sponges became swollen with water, greatly increasing his load. And thus his trick recoiled on him, for he now carried on his back a double burden.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
I used to want to pack as much as I could into my life, but now I realize it's more about quality of life than quantity.
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
...the only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.
Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers of indigent persons.
The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.
I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in economic processes, it is not only impossible to attain perfection but irrational to seek perfection- or even to seek the "best possible" result in each separate instance.
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.
