Famous quotes containing the words forgotten, freshness and/or volume:
“I ain’t seen the king’s face on a shilling for so long I’ve forgotten which George it is.”
—Talbot Jennings (1896–1985)
“But the impressions which the morning makes vanish with its dews, and not even the most “persevering mortal” can preserve the memory of its freshness to midday.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Hume in 1737.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)