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  • Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. -- Albert Einstein
  • I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge. -- Spike Milligan
  • At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. -- Mark Twain
  • Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. -- Erma Bombeck
  • But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? -- Mark Twain
  • 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
  • I don't like hiding. I do like to keep certain things to myself, but at the end of the day, I'm eighteen, and I'm going to fall in love. -- Selena Gomez
  • I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married. -- John Entwistle
  • Some truce," Daniel said, "Eighteen days of others trying to kill her. -- Lauren Kate
  • Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes! -- Jimmy Carr
  • Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way! -- Winsor McCay
  • Eighteen years ago, my left knee I hurt. I've never had a knee injury in the pros. -- Brian Leetch
  • Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square. -- David Wilkerson
  • There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good. -- Bessie Smith
  • Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • For whatever time I have to live, I intend to enjoy myself." - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live. -- Rachele Baker
  • Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. -- Grantland Rice
  • Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across the desk. -- Grantland Rice
  • Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg. -- Lee Westwood
  • We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live -- Rachele Baker
  • I hate to see it go, I'll tell you that. I played here all my life. Eighteen years I played here and I'm sorry to see it go. -- Yogi Berra
  • Ah my daughter. Eighteen and already you've been accused of murder, aided felons and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see. I couldn't be prouder.- Abe Mazure -- Richelle Mead
  • Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing. -- Diane von Furstenberg
  • Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young. -- Paul Auster
  • When you first get married, they open the car door for you. Eighteen years now...once he opened the car door for me in the last four years - we were on the freeway at the time. -- Joan Rivers
  • Ah, my daughter,ʺ he said. ʺEighteen, and already youʹve been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see.ʺ He paused. ʺI couldnʹt be prouder. -- Richelle Mead
  • Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to 'Twitter' transatlantically. -- Hans Rosling
  • Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to "?Twitter' transatlantically. -- Hans Rosling
  • Eighteen luscuios scrumpitous flavors, Chocolate,Lime and Cherry Coffee,Pumpkin, Fudge-Banana, Caramel Cream and boysenberry. Rocky Road and Toasted Almond, Butterscotch,Vanilla Dip, Butter Brinkle, Apple Ripple,Coconut,and Mocha Chip, Brandy Peach and Lemon Custard. Each scoop lovely.smooth and round. Tallest cream cone in town lying there on the ground. -- Shel Silverstein
  • How many of them were there?' Her voice wasn't joking around. Eighteen. Hundred.' Four,' Blaylock interjected. 'An honor guard of four.' What did they work you over with? Those bruises on your thighs are severe?' Crowbars. Big, massive-' Blay cut in. 'Clubs. Had to be those ceremonial black clubs. -- J.R. Ward
  • I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. -- Phyllis Diller
  • The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. -- E. B. White
  • That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them. -- Dorothy Parker
  • I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her. -- Ken Dodd
  • There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight -- Ezra Pound
  • Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen. -- Albert Einstein
  • 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
  • People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck. -- Claudia Gray
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  • There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself. -- Elizabeth Edwards
  • It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late. -- Betty Ford
  • Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock. -- Meriwether Lewis
  • For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future. -- Erich Maria Remarque
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day two men will murder women. And that's just in the United States. -- Lierre Keith
  • Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully. -- Dave Ramsey
  • I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation. -- Satyajit Ray
  • Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood. -- John Edward Redmond
  • I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen. -- Sarah Dessen
  • The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit. -- Smedley Butler
  • I think it's very uncomfortable for people to talk to children about war, and so they don't because it's easier not to. But then you have young people at eighteen who are enlisting in the army, and they really don't have the slightest idea what they're getting into. -- Suzanne Collins
  • There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day. -- James Dobson
  • In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between. -- Leslie Charteris
  • I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing. -- Alber Elbaz
  • I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted. -- Walter Kirn
  • You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study... Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I'll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas. -- Steven Pressfield
  • I do smoke, but I don't go through all this trouble just because I want to make my drug of choice legal. It's about personal freedom. We should have the right in this country to do what we want, if we don't hurt anybody. Seventy-two million people in this country have smoked pot. Eighteen to 20 million in the last year. These people should not be treated as criminals. -- Woody Harrelson
  • Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives? -- Steven Wright
  • At eighteen you sleep without memories. -- Naz?m Hikmet
  • No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • I'm eighteen, and I don't know what I want. -- Alice Cooper
  • Having your own, um, cave at eighteen is pretty cool. -- Richelle Mead
  • At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them. -- Naz?m Hikmet
  • Everybody's in love when they're eighteen. And everybody gets dumped. -- Susan Wiggs
  • I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Perv." He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point? -- Rachel Caine
  • I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record. -- Dylan Thomas
  • Yes I do like children ... Girl children...about eighteen or twenty. -- W. C. Fields
  • When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  • I didn't particularly feel like explaining myself to eighteen bewildered people. -- Shannon A. Thompson
  • The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man -- Aristotle
  • My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate. -- M. Night Shyamalan
  • That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all. -- Michael Cunningham
  • By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days. -- Townsend Harris
  • I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965. -- Wanda Jackson
  • I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing. -- Mark Alan Stamaty
  • It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically . -- Helen Mirren
  • Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you. -- Joe Frazier
  • On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story. -- Jerome Groopman
  • It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months. -- Doris Lessing
  • As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement. -- Sarah Dessen
  • I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond. -- Val Guest
  • I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record. -- Dylan Thomas
  • I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen. -- Jan Karon
  • After eighteen years of being utterly ordinary, I finally found that I can shine" -Bella Swan <3 -- Stephenie Meyer
  • My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember -- Elizabeth Scott
  • My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember. -- Elizabeth Scott
  • I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds. -- S. J. Perelman
  • I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth. -- Josh Groban
  • Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree. -- Dorothy Dunnett
  • I'm so much more confident and sexy at thirty-eight than I ever was when I was eighteen or twenty-four... -- Mindy Kaling
  • I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know. -- Phyllis Diller
  • At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder. -- Naz?m Hikmet
  • Always remember this: There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump. -- Hattie McDaniel
  • We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. -- Erich Maria Remarque
  • The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life. -- Michael Bamberger
  • The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects. -- Alfred Shrubb
  • Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years. -- Lee Trevino
  • Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch, but for eighteen holes he is your caddie. -- Arnold Haultain
  • I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam. -- Carre Otis
  • A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen. -- Oscar Wilde
  • In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring. -- Jules Renard
  • I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering. -- Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  • Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. -- John Burroughs
  • I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened. -- Sam Shepard
  • Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest. -- Murray Walker
  • I'm not allowed to celebrate as normal eighteen year olds probably would but I'm going to save it for after the Olympics! -- Tom Daley
  • Thank you for calling the Weight Loss Hotline. If you'd like to lose a half pound right now, press 1 eighteen thousand times. -- Randy Glasbergen
  • Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. -- Edward Abbey
  • I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink. -- Kinky Friedman
  • Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing. -- W. W. Rouse Ball
  • My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen. -- George Weinberg
  • Well I'm sixteen, close enough. Scarlett is eighteen, which makes Silas . . . wow. What does someone Silas's age want with a kid like me? -- Jackson Pearce
  • I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this. -- Kelly Preston
  • He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself. -- Richelle Mead
  • I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters. -- John Green
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