Quotes About Leap-year
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
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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
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The sky all at once is overhead dim and grey, puzzle of blocks sprawl, their own horizon; the city looks like a cemetery full of weak daylight, cool and a little wrong, making Ella feel a little put upon, like leap-year day—nothing in itself, but a nudge jostling every other day.
~ Unknown
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