“4633. The longest Day must have an End.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Source: The Great Gatsby
“4633. The longest Day must have an End.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“The day, even when it is at the longest, is quickly spent.”
Quamquam longissimus, dies cito conditur.
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
Letter 36, 4.
Letters, Book IX
Brian Andreas (1956) American artist
Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas
“The longest incubation period (of the 2019-nCoV) is 14 days.”
Zeng Guang (1946) Chinese epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Zeng Guang (2020) cited in " We must avoid losses caused by fear, overreaction: top epidemiologist https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1178031.shtml" on Global Times, 30 January 2020.
“The face we choose to miss,
Be it but for a day—
As absent as a hundred years
When it has rode away.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
The Single Hound, p. 312
Collected Poems (1993)
“A single day among the learned lasts longer than the longest life of the ignorant.”
Posidonius (-135–-51 BC) ancient greek philosopher
As quoted in Epistulae morales ad Lucilium by Seneca, Epistle LXXVIII (trans. R. M. Gummere)
Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) American artist
1980's, I don't necessarily desire a perfect photography,' 1981
Arin Paul (1980) Indian film director
On Indian Independence Day Celebrations http://www.ilovekolkata.in/index.php/My-City/Independence-means.html (2010)