Eighteen Quotes

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

Age, Sense, Common

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain

Humanity, Common, Satan

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain

Life, Age, Born

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma Bombeck

Hours, Prepare, Minutes

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hide, Hills, Caves

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.
Spike Milligan

Old, Keep, Year

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.
Phyllis Diller

Behind, Ironing

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
John Burroughs

Science, Done, Western

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
Martin H. Fischer

Work, Yourself, Cannot

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?
Rita Rudner

Women, God, Men

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
Desmond Tutu

Person, Why, Cannot

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Politics, Hours, Seldom

I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.
Dylan Thomas

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
E. B. White

Time, War, Father

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.
Michael J. Fox

Thought, After, Old

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.
Doris Lessing

Book, Year, Takes

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.
Elizabeth Edwards

Father, Nothing, Living

Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.
Jessica Lange

Life, Once, State

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
Billie Holiday

Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.
Mario Batali

Time, Fun, Play

In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.
Ashley Greene

Work, Focus, Matter

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.
David Wilkerson

Heart, Times, Holy

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
Betty Ford

God, Children, Feeling

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
Lee Trevino

Home, Divorce, Happens

I don't like hiding. I do like to keep certain things to myself, but at the end of the day, I'm eighteen, and I'm going to fall in love.
Selena Gomez

Love, End, Keep

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.
Carre Otis

Dad, After, Year

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.
Pete Seeger

America, Others, Three

I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.
Jeffrey Archer

Time, Government, Lost

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.
Martin Yan

Age, Past, Understand

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
Grantland Rice

Him, Play, Teach

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