Famous quotes containing the word twelve:
“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve oclock is a scoundrel.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference was that God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.With this I began to do philosophy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“You always read about it:
the plumber with twelve children
who wins the Irish Sweepstakes.
From toilets to riches.
That story.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
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