Quotes of Twelve - somelinesforyou

“ The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. ”

- Vance Havner

“ We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. ”

- Mark Twain

“ When I was born I owed twelve dollars. ”

- George S. Kaufman

“ Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty. ”

- James Thurber

“ Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. ”

- Ansel Adams

“ Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour! ”

- Tom Baker

“ It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day! ”

- Michael Bruce

“ I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. ”

- Edward Koch

“ If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty. ”

- Chris Rock

“ A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. ”

- Rod Serling

“ I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building. ”

- Charles M. Schulz

“ When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. ”

- Norm Crosby

“ Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room. ”

- Ernest Dimnet

“ Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind. ”

- Don Marquis

“ By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. ”

- Robert Frost

“ A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid. ”

- Jack Benny

“ We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. ”

- Phyllis Diller

“ Jury: Twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer. ”

- Robert Frost

“ A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. ”

- Jules Renard

“ A jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ”

- Robert Frost

“ A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about. ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. ”

- Mary Flannery O’Connor

“ I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me. ”

- Lisa Alther

“ It's about time we quit playing church in these services that start at eleven o clock sharp and end at twelve o clock dull. ”

- Vance Havner

“ The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try. ”

- William Shakespeare
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