Age Eighteen Years

Famous quotes containing the words eighteen years, age, eighteen and/or years:

    ““German spirit”: for the past eighteen years a contradictio in adjecto.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Hath homely age th’ alluring beauty took
    From my poor cheek? Then he hath wasted it.
    Are my discourses dull? Barren my wit?
    If voluble and sharp discourse be marred,
    Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “That woman speaks eighteen languages and can’t say No in any of them.”
    —Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

    “What is it then between us?
    What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?

    Whatever it is, it avails not—distance avails not, and
    place avails not,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)