We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.
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The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages and she can't say 'no' in any one of them
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I just drank eighteen whiskies. That must be a record.
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The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl w...
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I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. 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
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific
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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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There was another silence, while Marjorie considered whether or not convincing her mother was worth the trouble. People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.
From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality.
From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
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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 ha...
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My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
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I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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