Long Count Dates

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

“I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated from long housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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

“Dates are stupidly annoying—what we want is not dates but taste;Myet we are uncomfortable without them.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)