Sixteen

Famous quotes containing the word sixteen:

    From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
    Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death.
    —Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)

    The Reverend Samuel Peters ... exaggerated the Blue Laws, but they did include “Capital Lawes” providing a death penalty for any child over sixteen who was found guilty of cursing or striking his natural parents; a death penalty for an incorrigible son; a law forbidding smoking except in a room in a private house; another law declaring smoking illegal except on a journey five miles away from home,...
    —Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)