Significant Birth Date/Quotes

"''"For some ridiculous reason, to which, however, I've no desire to be disloyal,

Some person in authority, I don't know who, very likely the Astronomer Royal,

Has decided that, although for such a beastly month as February,

twenty-eight days as a rule are plenty,

One year in every four his days shall be reckoned as nine and twenty.

Through some singular coincidence -- I shouldn't be surprised if it were owing to the

agency of an ill-natured fairy --

You are the victim of this clumsy arrangement, having been born in leap-year,

on the twenty-ninth of February;

And so, by a simple arithmetical process, you'll easily discover,

That though you've lived twenty-one years, yet, if we go by birthdays,

you're only five and a little bit over!"''"

- The Pirate King, The Pirates of Penzance