18th Quotes

When you build a golf course, I always use the example of Pebble Beach. If you took the ocean away from the 18th hole, it's a good golf hole. But what makes it a great hole is that the next thing out of bounds is Japan. - Pete Dye

When they did this in the 18th century, it was fun and the purpose was to make the crowd have fun. ... If you didn't make the crowds happy, they wouldn't throw any money in your hat. 'Punch and Judy' hasn't lasted 300 and some years because it wasn't fun to watch. - Tom Tucker

When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel that he probably knows what he is talking about. I just wish he hadn't told me. - James Fenton

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. - Walter Russell Mead

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. - Robert Smithson

What we're trying to do is mix an 18th century building with 21st century building technology. - Bruce Lowe

What happened on the 18th is merely a microcosm of the problem of racism that exists here on campus and within society at large. - Stacy King

What an incredible success these 18th Games have been, there can be no question at all about the success of the Games. - Michael Fennell

We're not going to go up there and discuss what we're going to do on the 11th or the 18th or the 25th. - Pat Thomas

Well, I'm sure it's slightly less romantic for people who were out (on ships). (18th-century English diarist) Samuel Johnson said going to sea is like going to prison. - David Caruthers