Edward Gibbon/later Years - 1789%e2%80%931794

Famous quotes containing the words edward gibbon, edward, gibbon and/or years:

    “Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.”
    —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

    “we carry home as prizes
    Funny bugs, of handy sizes,
    Just to give the day a scientific tone.”
    —Charles Edward Carryl (1841–1920)

    “My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.”
    —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

    “Who lives longer: the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or the man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes till ninety-five? One passes his twenty-four months in eternity. All the years of the beef-eater are lived only in time.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)