Famous quotes containing the words long, count and/or calendar:
“Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“You count your lover fair,
your bride or your bride-groom,
yet you would shun the room
where their enchantments are.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“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.”
—Clifton Fadiman (b. 1904)