Math is like Quotes

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

— Albert Einstein

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

— John Locke

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

— G. H. Hardy

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

— G. H. Hardy

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

— Plato

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

— Paul Halmos

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

— Carl Sandburg

A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can…

— George Polya