Leap Year Starting

Famous quotes containing the words leap, year and/or starting:

    “Our enemies have beat us to the pit.
    It is more worthy to leap in ourselves
    Than tarry till they push us.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The year growing ancient,
    Not yet on summer’s death, nor on the birth
    Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o’the season
    Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “It smells like gangrene starting in a mildewed silo; it tastes like the wrath to come, and when you absorb a deep swig of it you have all the sensations of having swallowed a lighted kerosene lamp.”
    —For the State of Kentucky, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)