Seven-eighths Quotes

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. (Ernest Hemingway)
As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again. View quote
Charles Dickens