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)
“As the moon waxes, then wanes, so at middle age do people decline.”
—Chinese proverb.
“It’s my feeling that God lends you your children until they’re about eighteen years old. If you haven’t made your points with them by then, it’s too late.”
—Betty Ford (b. 1918)
“Unlike Boswell, whose Journals record a long and unrewarded search for a self, Johnson possessed a formidable one. His life in London—he arrived twenty-five years earlier than Boswell—turned out to be a long defense of the values of Augustan humanism against the pressures of other possibilities. In contrast to Boswell, Johnson possesses an identity not because he has gone in search of one, but because of his allegiance to a set of assumptions that he regards as objectively true.”
—Jeffrey Hart (b. 1930)