Intercalary Days Quotes & Sayings

People hate it when you're better than them. They ain't hating, start worrying then. — T.I.

Seventy years I regard as the limit of the life of man. In these seventy years are contained, without reckoning intercalary months, twenty-five thousand and two hundred days. Add an intercalary month to every other year, that the seasons may come round at the right time, and there will be, besides the seventy years, thirty-five such months, making an addition of one thousand and fifty days. The whole number of the days contained in the seventy years will thus be twenty-six thousand two hundred and fifty, whereof not one but will produce events unlike the rest. Hence man is wholly accident. — Herodotus

Want to hear a sad story about the Dukakis campaign? The governor of Massachusetts, he lost his top naval advisor last week. His rubber ducky drowned in the bathtub. — Dan Quayle

In small moment of time, the climax of their lives, a culmination of glory, not of fear, were swept away from us. — Thucydides

Great artists need great clients. — I.M. Pei

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C. — Luke Scott

Snowlight, moonlight, a confusion of paw-prints. — Angela Carter

The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man. — Otto Weininger

The maple tree plays a meaningful role in the historical development of Canada. It contributes to wood products, sustains the maple sugar industry, and beautifies the landscape. — Planet Collection

Seize the night.
And I blink and feel a surge of certainty and excitement, because of course that's what one does when one wants something. One seizes it. Well, maybe not all things. Cats, for example, do not respond well to seizure. Probably girls don't, either. So this might not be a good credo in life, but for Saturday nights in general and this one in particular, it works. — Laini Taylor

Do you think He can see when one of my gloves is off? — S.M. Reine

I'll always come to see you, all my life, Alyosha answered firmly. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky