| "Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score Then to that twenty, add a hundred more A thousand to that hundred so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun." »Robert Herrick |
| "Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying." »Irish Proverb |
| "There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them." »Elie Wiesel |
| "I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five" »George Gordon Byron |
| "What makes all doctrines plain and clear- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again Two hundred more." »Samuel Butler |
| "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before." »Jacob August Riis |
| "Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years." »John Burroughs |
| "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery." »Charles Dickens |
| "Hindsight is always twenty-twenty." »Billy Wilder |
| "You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." »Woody Allen |
| "I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day." »Jesse Barfield |
| "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus 1 day, so I never have to go through a day without you." »Alan Alexander Milne |
| "Youth is something very new twenty years ago no one mentioned it." »Coco Chanel |
| "Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes." »Mickey Mouse |
| "I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it." »Lord Brabazon |
| "One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty." »Maxim Gorky |
| "You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions." »Senator Patrick Leahy |
| "When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am." »Samuel Johnson |
| "Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it." »Jules Renard |
| "There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Few sinners are saved after the fiirst twenty minutes of a sermon." »Mark Twain |
| "I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours." »Monica Baldwin |
| "A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "Friends are like melons, Shall I tell you why To find one good, you must a hundred try." »Unknown |
| "Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success." »Diana Rankin |
| "I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago." »Will Rogers |
| "When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes." »John Shedd |
| "Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest." »Wilson Mizner |
| "Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em." »Casey Stengel |
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