Longest Serving Prime

Famous quotes containing the words longest, serving and/or prime:

    A bill... is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius of man ever produced. It would keep on running during the longest lifetime, without ever once stopping of its own accord.
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    With serving still
    This have I won,
    For my goodwill
    To be undone;
    Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    And this must be the prime of life . . . I blink,
    As if at pain; for it is pain, to think
    This pantomime
    Of compensating act and counter-act,
    Defeat and counterfeit, makes up, in fact,
    My ablest time.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)