Eighteen Quotes

256 quotes by 218 authors

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. — Erma Bombeck
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. — John Burroughs
The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that… — Smedley Butler
Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing. — W. W. Rouse Ball
Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years. — Swami Vivekananda
I say that they can be solved; there is no problem that cannot be, but faith is necessary. Think of the faith I had to… — Adolf Hitler
Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch, but for eighteen holes he is your caddie. — Arnold Haultain
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk. — Grantland Rice
I do smoke, but I don't go through all this trouble just because I want to make my drug of choice legal. It's about personal… — Woody Harrelson
She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young… — Doris Lessing
The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was… — Abraham Lincoln
The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man — Aristotle
I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her. — Ken Dodd
But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our… — Mark Twain
Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said, very fragmentary. And… — Rajneesh
She explained that the bullet had entered through the side of my left eye where there was a scar, traveled eighteen inches down to my… — Malala Yousafzai
I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds. — S. J. Perelman
It was daylight and I drove everyone home - I was driving a Mini with John and Cynthia and Pattie in it. I seem to… — George Harrison
A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation. — Donald Horne

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