"People think six is a great many, when……" — E. Nesbit
"People think six is a great many, when it's children. ...they don't mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges, especially in equations, but they seem to think that you ought not to have five brothers and sisters."
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22 Quotes by E. Nesbit
E. Nesbit has 22 quotes on this site.
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I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to…
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I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other…
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There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of…
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A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.
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The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor…
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The ones as big as sheep were easier to avoid, because you could see them coming, but when they flew…
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I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of…
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It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
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It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.
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This is why I shall not tell you in this story about all the days when nothing happened. You will…
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Then suddenly Jack was a changed boy. Something wonderful had happened to him, and it had made him different. It…
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...Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is…
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More Apples Quotes
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Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
— Bernard Baruch
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was…
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For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its…
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When I met Apple, I made it very clear that I am an old punk and I have never done…
— Bjork
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I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another…
— Lewis Black
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I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have…
— Mary J. Blige
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In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million.…
— Nolan Bushnell
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Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole…
— Johnny Cash
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
— Paul Cezanne
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Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.
— Frank A. Clark
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Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.
— Richard Hamming
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It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.
— Red Barber
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