| "Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying." »Irish Proverb |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." »James Albert Michener |
| "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." »Gail |
| "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre." »Gail Godwin |
| "That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres -- two doubles and a triple." »Jerry Coleman |
| "I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket." »Sylvia Plath |
| "News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day." »Gene Fowler |
| "He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards." »G. C. Lichtenberg |
| "What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham." »Frederick Douglas |
| "Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15." »Ronald Reagan |
| "Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes." »Mickey Mouse |
| "We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it." »Jules Renard |
| "You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions." »Senator Patrick Leahy |
| "Youth is something very new twenty years ago no one mentioned it." »Coco Chanel |
| "One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty." »Maxim Gorky |
| "Few sinners are saved after the fiirst twenty minutes of a sermon." »Mark Twain |
| "The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since." »Kareem Abdul-Jabar |
| "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 |
| "Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so." »Mark Twain |
| "If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself 'I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods." »Epictetus |
| "I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago." »Will Rogers |
| "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 |
| "All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia." »Woody Allen |
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