Longest Recorded Confirmed

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

“Daisies in water are the longest lasting
flower you can give to someone.
Fact.
Buy daisies.
Not roses.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.”
—14th-century French proverb, first recorded in English in A. Barclay, Gringore’s Castle of Labour (1506)

“Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever. One would say that even the prophets and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed the hopes of man. There is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)