When I was a lad I served a term As office boy to an attorney's firm. I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, And I polished up the handle of the big front door. I polished up that handle so carefullee That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  HMS Pinafore, act 2.

To every nation a term; whentheir term comesthey shall not put it back by a single hour nor put it forward.

-The Koran
Sura 7, l.34.

I remember summing up what I took to be ourdestiny, in conversation with my best friend at Chartres, by the formula,'Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.'

-Lewis, C(live) S(taples)
  Surprised by  Joy, ch.4.