Hanged in a Fortnight

“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” – Samuel Johnson, man of letters


“I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action …” – Cyril Connolly, book critic


“Sometimes, when something really great happens to me, I like to wait two weeks before I tell anyone about it, because I like to use the word 'fortnight'.” –Demetri Martin, comedian


“One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.” –Jane Austen, novelist


“… once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist


“I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head.” –Nigelia Lawson, journalist


“She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.” – Dorothy Sayers, writer


“‘Ah,’ said the jailer, ‘do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.’” – Alexandre Dumas, writer


And in two weeks, Public Utilities Fortnightly returns, after eleven years, to publishing every fortnight.

 

The again twice-per-month magazine for commentary, opinion and debate on utility regulation and policy since 1928, Public Utilities Fortnightly. “In PUF, Impact the Debate.”

Steve Mitnick, Editor-in-Chief, Public Utilities Fortnightly

E-mail me: mitnick@fortnightly.com