Longest Recorded Confirmed

Famous quotes containing the words longest, recorded and/or confirmed:

    “I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth & yet last the longest in the dust.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.”
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    “What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.”
    —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)