Longest Recorded Confirmed

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

    “The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    “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)

    “What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)