Long Count Dates

Famous quotes containing the words long, count and/or dates:

“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

“Do not count on much from the future, nor trouble your mind about the past.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)