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Quotes About Calendar

Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.
~ Author Unknown
Well, it has happened again. The Earth has circled four times around the sun, astronomers have designated this a leap year and anxious bachelors won't answer their telephones until midnight.
~ David O'Reilly, 1984
Thirty dayes hath November, April, June, and September, Twenty and eyght hath February alone, And all the rest thirty and one, But in the leape you must add one.
~ William Harrison, 1577
Aprill, June, and September, Thirty daies have as November; Ech month else doth never vary From thirty-one, save February; Wich twenty-eight doth still confine, Save on Leap-yeare, then twenty-nine.
~ Cambridge Almanac for 1635
Days twenty-eight in second month appear, And one day more is added each leap year: The fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth months run To thirty days, — the rest to thirty-one.
~ Society of Friends, 1800s
Thirty days has September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, But February twenty-eight alone, Except in leap-year, once in four, When February has one day more.
~ Variant of the rhyme, c. 1840s
"Thirty days hath September," Every person can remember; But to know when Easter comes Puzzles even scholars some. When March the twenty-first is past Just watch the silvery moon, And when you see it full and round, Know Easter'll be here soon. After the moon has reached its full, Then Easter will be here, On the very Sunday after, In each and every year. And if it hap on Sunday The moon should reach its height, The Sunday following this event Will be the Easter bright.
~ Boston Transcript, 1895
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty one, Once short February's done.
~ Variant of the rhyme, c. 1970s
Thirty days has September, April, June, and November; When short February's done, All the rest have thirty-one.
~ Variant of the rhyme, c. 1970s
There are two kinds of special events: planned and unplanned.
~ Laurie Nadel
Okay, okay,' I said to my husband as he picked up a food dehydrator off the table and shot me a look. 'Maybe I did get carried away. Maybe the world won't end in a year, maybe it won't end until 2028, when the Aztec calendar stops.' 'The Bugles will be very old by then,' my husband said. 'They will have lost their snappy crunch.' 'They weren't to eat,' I said. 'They were to put on our fingers and poke the eyes out of looters.
~ Laurie Notaro
Caesar and Augustus both have months named after them (July for Julius Caesar and August for Augustus).
~ James Weber
All in all, we Muslims have only two holidays, and they're always getting moved around from season to season, from month to month, because we're dependent on the moon and not the sun, and unlike the Jews, we haven't created a leap year, so we have no Adar Bet.
~ Sayed Kashua
The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.
~ Chris Gabrieli
The electoral calendar is set in stone, by law.
~ George T. Conway III
I'm not a big fan of the Olympic Games. The ATP calendar is a bit complex due to the Olympic event.
~ Dominic Thiem
And thus I left the island, the 19th of December, as I found by the ship's account, in the year 1686, after I had been upon it eight-and-twenty years, two months, and nineteen days;
~ Daniel Defoe
When the necessary eleven days were added, George Washington's birthday, which fell on February 11, 1731, Old Style, became February 22, 1732, New Style.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
In 1792 their decimal calendar replaced the 7-day week by a 10-day week called a décade, each day of which was given a Latin numerical name, three of which comprised a month. The day was divided into ten hours, each consisting of 100 minutes, each minute of 100 seconds.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
The system decides you can't run schools in the summer.
~ Geoffrey Canada
I'm sixty-five but if there were fifteen months in every year I'd only be forty-eight.
~ James Thurber
They divided the year into twelve lunar months, six having thirty days, six twenty-nine; and as this made but 354 days in all, they added a thirteenth month occasionally to harmonize the calendar with the seasons
~ Will Durant
The division of our month into four weeks, of our clock into twelve hours (instead of twenty-four), of our hour into sixty minutes, and of our minute into sixty seconds, are unsuspected Babylonian vestiges in our contemporary world.XVI
~ Will Durant
Everyone could see the contrast between this thriving, martial, boldly led new Germany and the decadent democracies in the West, whose confusions and vacillations seemed to increase with each new month of the calendar.
~ William L. Shirer