Twelve

Famous quotes containing the word twelve:

“I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.... The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Ten for the Ten Commandments

Eleven for the ‘leven that went to heaven

Twelve for the twelve Apostles”
—Unknown. Carol of the Numbers (l. 30–32)

“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)