#eighteen

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#eighteenth #eighteenth century #loathed #melancholy #whole

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes. ↗

— James Stockdale

#air #another #bombs #december #eighteenth

Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?" "Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott

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

#feeling #get #god #joke #men

One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?," she said, "I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them and marrying him and living happily ever after. But life is not nearly as that simple when one finally does grow up. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#growing-up #dreams

I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#after #anything #conservative #eighteen #election

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#coincidence #consumed #dinners #eighteen #hours

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#convictions #eighteen #forty-five #hide #hills

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#consciousness #cultural #decades #easy #eighteen

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

#bully #cared #eighteen #father #him