Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky -- or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.
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To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.
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Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.
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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
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For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the asp...
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Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.
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Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
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In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
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A happy person is one whose arithmetic is at its best when they is counting their blessings.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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