Years Long

Famous quotes containing the words years and/or long:

“Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive
performance?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident—the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.”
—Edward C. Banfield (b. 1916)