Quotes of Eighteen - somelinesforyou

“ When you are seventeen you aren't really serious. ”

- Arthur Rimbaud

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Grantland Rice

“ In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world. ”

- Vince Poscente

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Lee Trevino

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

- Mark Twain

“ Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing. ”

- Andre Malraux

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

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. ”

- Grantland Rice

“ I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ I just drank eighteen whiskies. That must be a record. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. ”

- E. B. White

“ 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. ”

- Sophie Tucker

“ Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature. ”

- Henry C. Link

“ The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper. ”

- Frank Yerby

“ Some of our friends came and sat in with us, and it was just so much fun. We said, Hey, let's do this once in a while. We did them every year for a while, then we took it on the road. We've done eighteen now, I think. ”

- Charlie Daniels

“ I'm not going to say anything nasty about golf. I have a standing offer - and I've told this to Bill and Mike - that if they ever do a charity golf thing again, I will get knickers and a tweed cap and, never having touched a golf club in my life, I will take mushrooms and do a full eighteen holes… ”

- Peter Buck

“ 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. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ Its idea of "production value" is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler. ”

- Raymond Chandler

“ 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 — a white skin. ”

- Desmond Tutu
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