Eighteen

Famous quotes containing the word eighteen:

    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)

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

    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)