Long Count Dates

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

    “Modern civilization has bred a race with brains like those of rabbits and we who are the heirs of the witch-doctor and the voodoo. We artists who have been so long the despised are about to take over control.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens
    Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p’raps a Duke of
    Dickens—”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire
    What thou dost foist upon us that is old,”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)