Years
The Siamese generally used two calendars, a sacred and a popular (vulgar in the classical sense.) The vulgar era was instituted when the worship of Gautama was first introduced, and corresponds to the traditional Burmese calendar (which is abbreviated ME or BE, the latter not to be confused with the abbreviation for the Buddhist Era, which is the sacred era.)
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Famous quotes containing the word years:
“After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, “Oh! Life is so hard!” and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“And they wonder, as waiting the long years through
In the dust of that little chair,
What has become of our Little Boy Blue,
Since he kissed them and put them there.”
—Eugene Field (1850–1895)
“We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)