Eighteen Quotes

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. (Albert Einstein)
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them. View quote
Dorothy Parker
I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge. View quote
Spike Milligan
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record. View quote
Dylan Thomas
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. View quote
Erma Bombeck
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 is another matter -- twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent -- the sky is the limit. View quote
Smedley Butler
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? View quote
Mark Twain
Common sense is actually nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of eighteen. View quote
Albert Einstein
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. (John Burroughs)
Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent. View quote
Martin Yan
All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person. View quote
John Lennon
I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird. View quote
Frank Zappa
Historically, and since, 1520, eighteen Treaties have been concluded between the Persian State and its western neighbours regarding its relations therewith including the question of borders. On all occasions, the Persian State chose the opportunity to violate the said Treaties whether by word or deed. View quote
Saddam Hussein
At eighteen you sleep without memories. View quote
Nâzım Hikmet
At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them. View quote
Nâzım Hikmet
At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder. View quote
Nâzım Hikmet
With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another. View quote
Stanislaw Ulam
When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months. View quote
Vernor Vinge
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. (E. B. White)
The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men. View quote
Aristotle
I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation. View quote
Satyajit Ray
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise. View quote
Mary Balogh