Eighteen Thousand Years

Famous quotes containing the words thousand years, eighteen, thousand and/or years:

    The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person,
    videlicet, in a love-cause.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    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)

    O farewell griefe, and welcome joye,
    Ten thousand times therefore;
    —Unknown. The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington (l. 49–50)

    On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.
    Norman Mailer (b. 1923)