“Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.” MenLongLeftBehindsBoysYouthSweetThirtyOld ManLeft BehindScarceSixteenGlee Author:Arthur Hugh Clough
“Long ago I abandoned my masterpiece a roll of paper thirty yards long which I filled completely with minute handwriting in my dungeon years ago It vanished when the Bastille fell it vanished as everything written everything thought and planned will disappear” YearsLongWrittenMinutesPaperYears AgoFilledDisappearThirtyAbandonedLong AgoYardsMasterpieceDungeonsHandwritingBastille Book:Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman Source: Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman
“Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.” WayYearsLongMiddleDogMonthsColdEatingFellowsThirtyCrowOld DogQuails Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son
“At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote, lonely and desolate continent. A place where it's possible to see the splendours and immensities of the natural world at its most dramatic and, what's more, witness them almost exactly as they were, long, long before human beings ever arrived on the surface of this planet. Long may it remain so.” PeopleWorldHumansMayLongStillsNaturalHuman BeingsPlanetsOne DayLonelyRemainsSurfaceWitnessDramaticThirtyContinentsNatural WorldEverestDesolateImmensitySplendourAntarctica Author:David Attenborough