“ 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 attribute - a white skin. ”
- Desmond Tutu- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke? ”
- Rita Rudner- Copy
- 834
“ Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. ”
- Grantland Rice- Copy
- 705
“ In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world. ”
- Vince Poscente- Copy
- 1K
“ Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. ”
- Billie Holiday- Copy
- 3K
“ After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks. ”
- Michael J. Fox- Copy
- 434
“ My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years. ”
- Lee Trevino- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 460
“ Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 388
“ Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 3K
“ Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing. ”
- Andre Malraux- Copy
- 714
“ At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. ”
- Grantland Rice- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record. ”
- Dylan Thomas- Copy
- 1.9K
“ From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash. ”
- Sophie Tucker- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature. ”
- Henry C. Link- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper. ”
- Frank Yerby- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Some of our friends came and sat in with us, and it was just so much fun. We said, Hey, let's do this once in a while. We did them every year for a while, then we took it on the road. We've done eighteen now, I think. ”
- Charlie Daniels- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I'm not going to say anything nasty about golf. I have a standing offer - and I've told this to Bill and Mike - that if they ever do a charity golf thing again, I will get knickers and a tweed cap and, never having touched a golf club in my life, I will take mushrooms and do a full eighteen holes… ”
- Peter Buck- Copy
- 1K
“ The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Its idea of "production value" is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
- 2K
“ 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 attribute — a white skin. ”
- Desmond Tutu- Copy
- 1.2K
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