Quotes about Gregorian Calendar

Daniel J. Boorstin

When the necessary eleven days were added, George Washington’s birthday, which fell on February 11, 1731, Old Style, became February 22, 1732, New Style.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

Denis Leary

Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us.

Bari Weiss

There's no question that I am biased toward the Hebrew calendar over the Gregorian one.

George Carlin

What year did Jesus think it was?

Julius Caesar

The Egyptian calendar is the only intelligent calendar that ever existed in human history.

In Caesar’s famous adventure in Cleopatra’s Egypt he discovered that in many ways, the Egyptian culture, physicians and scientists were far superior. Rome had become the superpower by adopting new ideas and technology wherever they found them. Caesar, living in Cleopatra’s palace in Alexandria which was then the great center of learning of the known world, worked with the Egyptian Astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria to understand the Egyptian calendar which he then adopted and ordered Rome to change in 45 BC, and has since been referred to as the “Julian calendar” which is close to what we use today. The Egyptians of Cleopatra’s era were so scientifically sophisticated that Sosigenes not only knew that the planets revolved around the sun, but had calculated the orbits of the inner planets. See {621716}.

Sayed Kashua

Whom do you speak to about introducing a leap year? Is it heresy to request such a thing? Why do the Jews have one and we don't?

George Herbert

Reckon right, and February hath one and thirty daies.

Gregorian Calendar Quotes