Twelve
One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen.
The number next following eleven; the sum of ten and two, or of twice six; twelve units or objects; a dozen.
A symbol representing twelve units, as 12, or xii.
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Twelve Quotations
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma Bombeck
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Earl Nightingale
You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.
Johnny Cash
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
Ansel Adams
The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
Virginia Satir
You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.
Ron White
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Phyllis Diller
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
Orville Wright
If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.
Chris Rock
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
James Thurber
As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.
Ann Coulter
So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
Buffalo Bill
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.
James Hillman
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
Judy Garland
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
Black Elk
If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.
Joan Didion
We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through.
Bill Bruford
People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.
David Lee Roth
My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first.
Rooney Mara
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
There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
Anthony Trollope
It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day!
Michael Owen Bruce
It's unbelievable what one squadron of twelve aircraft did to tip the balance.
Adolf Galland
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Twelve Translations
twelve in Afrikaans is twaalf
twelve in Danish is tolv
twelve in Dutch is twaalf
twelve in Finnish is kaksitoista
twelve in French is douze
twelve in Italian is dodici
twelve in Norwegian is tolv
twelve in Portuguese is doze
twelve in Spanish is doce
twelve in Swedish is tolv
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