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"Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying." »Irish Proverb
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"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
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"When I was one-and-twenty,
I heard a wise man say,
Give pounds and crowns and guineas,
But not your heart away."
Give pearls away and rubies,
But keep your fancy free."
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me." »A.E. Houseman
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"It has just been twenty-three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty-three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift." »Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
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"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
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"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty." »Billy Wilder
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"It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him." »Helen Rowland
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"Is it the Fourth?" »Thomas Jefferson
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"I want that fourth carrier." »Chester William Nimitz
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"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." »James Albert Michener
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"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15." »Ronald Reagan
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"I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals." »Beatrice Lillie
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"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." »Gail
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"That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres -- two doubles and a triple." »Jerry Coleman
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"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre." »Gail Godwin
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Youth is something very new twenty years ago no one mentioned it." »Coco Chanel
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"Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it." »Coco Chanel
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"Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five." »Benjamin Franklin
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"My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met." »Rodney Dangerfield
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"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
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"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
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"Walking twenty miles a day keeps the Witch Doctor away." »Johnny Wowk
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"You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions." »Senator Patrick Leahy
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"The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year-old men more." »Collen McCullough
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"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
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