Fortnight Quotations
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
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
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
Hilaire Belloc
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
Samuel Richardson
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
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
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
In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.
Joseph Chamberlain
Fortnight Translations
fortnight in Danish is fjorten dage
fortnight in Dutch is veertien dagen, twee weken
fortnight in French is quinzaine
fortnight in German is vierzehn Tage
fortnight in Norwegian is fjorten dager
fortnight in Swedish is fjorton dagar
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