Long Count Dates

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

    “But all its chief delight was still
    On Roses thus its self to fill:
    And its pure virgin Limbs to fold
    In whitest sheets of Lillies cold.
    Had it liv’d long it would have been
    Lillies without, Roses within.”
    —Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)

    “Every country has its own constitution; ours is absolutism moderated by assassination.”
    —Anonymous Russian. Quoted in Count Münster, Political Sketches of the State of Europe 1814-1867 (1868)

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