Eighteenth Quotes

71 Eighteenth quotes by 68 unique authors

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave… — Walter Lippmann
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. — George Lakoff
On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed. — Greg Egan
Women want a family life that glitters and is stable. They don't want some lump spouse watching ice hockey in the late hours of his… — Carolyn See
So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled… — Mark Forsyth
If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed. — E. Jean Carroll
I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those things… — Wendy Lesser
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire. — Plato
Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined… — J. Christopher Herold
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. — Ralph Adams Cram
If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined… — Barbara Jordan
The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of… — Stefan Collini
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know… — C L R James
It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive… — Diane Wood
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of… — Ralph Adams Cram
Have not Manet and Monet, CÃ©zanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the… — Winston Churchill
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew… — Henry Hazlitt
Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in… — John Hamill
Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth. — Heinrich Heine

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