Age Eighteen Years

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

““German spirit”: for the past eighteen years a contradictio in adjecto.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Were not the right man on our side,
The man of God’s own choosing.
Dost ask who that may be?
Christ Jesus, it is he,
Lord Sabaoth is his name,
From age to age the same,
And he must win the battle.”
—Martin Luther (1483–1546)

“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)

“We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)