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Fortnight Quotes

Fortnight Definition  
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
Hilaire Belloc

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.
Graham Nelson

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
Samuel Richardson

In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.
John Hume

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.
Joseph Chamberlain

It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges.
James Lind

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.
Eamon de Valera

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson






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