I believe every human has a finite number of heart- beats.I don't intend towasteanyof minerunning around doing exercises.

-Armstrong, Neil A(lden)
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 90:12.

   He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms147:4.

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation13:17^18.

I think business is very simple.Profit. Loss. Take the sales, subtract the costs, you get this big positive number. The math is quite straightforward.

-Gates, Bill (William Henry III)
  Quoted in the US News and World Report,15 Feb.

The best number fora dinner party istwoömyself and a damn good head waiter.

-Gulbenkian, Nubar Sarkis
  In the Daily  Telegraph,14  Jan.

Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measureinthemake ofall things, themost likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts ofthe Creationwhich come withinourobservation must

-Hales, Stephen
Canadian lawyer and satirist. In1835 he began a series of satiric sketches  later  enlarged  as The Clockmaker;  or The Sayings  and Doings of Samuel Slick (1836). The OldJudge;  or Life in a Colony (1849) combines social history and satire.

Onthisnext number Iwant youall tojoinin.Would those in the cheap seats clap their hands? The rest of you can rattle your jewellery.

-Lennon,JohnWinston
   Addressing the audience during a Royal Command performance. Quoted in Bill Harry  The Ultimate Beatles Encyclopedia (1992).

The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.

-Grieve
  Review of D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in The New Age, 27 Sep. This may very well have been the first published review of Lawrence's novel.

Amar es combatir, es abrir puertas, dejar de ser fantasma con un n u¤ mero a perpetua cadena condenado por un amo sin rostro. To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master.

-Paz, Octavio
  Libertad bajo palabra,'Piedra de sol' (translated as'The Sun Stone',1963).

Instead of using onlycomparativeWords and intellectual Arguments, I have taken the course†to express myself inTerms of Number,Weight, or Measure; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations in Nature.

-Petty, Sir William
  Political Arithmetick.

There is a formal poetry perfect only in form†the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedöthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

-Sandburg, Carl
Quoted inTheComplete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1986),'Notes for a Preface'.

   To begin with, I was born with an unreasonably large stock of relations, who have increased and multiplied ever since. My aunts and uncles were legion, and my cousins as the sands of the sea without number. Consequently, even a low death-rate meant, in the course of mere natural decay, a tolerably steady supply of funerals for a by no means affectionate but exceedingly clannish family to go to. Add to this that the town we lived in, being divided in religious opinion, buried its dead in two great cemeteries, each of which was held by the opposite faction to be the ante- chamber of perdition, and by its own patrons to be the gate of paradise.

-Shaw, George Bernard
'Music in London'.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

-Thurber,James Grover
  Cartoon caption, in the NewYorker, 5 Jun.

C'est un axiome de la science politique aux EŁ  tats-Unis, que le seul moyen de neutraliser les effets des journaux est d'en multiplier le nombre. It isanaxiomof politicsinthe United States, thatthe only means of neutralising the effects of newspapers is to increase their number.

-Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Cle¤  rel de
^40  De la De¤  mocratie en Ame¤  rique (Democracy in America), vol.1, pt.2, ch.3.