Long Numbers

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or numbers:

“Poor tired Tim! It’s sad for him
He lags the long bright morning through,
Ever so tired of nothing to do;”
—Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)

“All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to support many incompetent men; for such is the favoritism and nepotism always prevailing in the purlieus of these establishments, that some incompetent persons are always admitted, to the exclusion of many of the worthy.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)