Famous quotes containing the word eighteen:
“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 has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
““German spirit”: for the past eighteen years a contradictio in adjecto.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I lived in Judæa eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)