Longest Serving Prime

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

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

“A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War—Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“And shall I prime my children, pray, to pray?”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)