Year Numbering

Famous quotes containing the words year and/or numbering:

“Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.”
—Truman Capote (1924–1984)

“The task he undertakes
Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)