Famous quotes containing the words january and/or fourth:
“Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the dayswhatever there may be for the dustthe thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“I asked my mother for fifty cents
To see the elephant jump the fence.
He jumped so high he reached the sky,
And didnt get back till the Fourth of July.”
—Unknown. I Asked My Mother (l. 14)