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 (1717–1797)
““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)