Longest Recorded Confirmed

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

“The ensuing year will be the longest of my life, and the last of such hateful labours. The next we will sow our cabbages together.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“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)