Famous quotes containing the word eighteen:
“Eighteen convicts being hanged in one day ... a woman was crying an account of their execution. A gentleman asked her why she said nineteen, when there had been but eighteen hanged? She replied, Sir, I did not know you had been reprieved.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“German spirit: for the past eighteen years a contradictio in adjecto.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attributea white skin.”
—Desmond Tutu (b. 1931)