Definition of Eight

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Definition of Eight
	Eight An island in a river; an ait. Seven and one; as, eight years. The number greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects. A symbol representing eight units, as 8 or viii. Related Definitions: Ait, An, And, As, By, Eight, In, Island, Number, One, Or, River, Seven, Symbol, Than, The, Unit

Eight Quotations

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
Abraham Lincoln

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosby

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
Will Rogers

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George Orwell

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
Harry S. Truman

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.
Lenny Bruce

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
William Faulkner

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Lily Tomlin

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
Elie Wiesel

Eight Translations

eight in Afrikaans is ag
eight in Danish is otte
eight in Dutch is acht
eight in Finnish is kahdeksan
eight in French is huit
eight in German is acht
eight in Hungarian is nyolcas, nyolc
eight in Italian is otto
eight in Portuguese is oito
eight in Spanish is ocho

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