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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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"Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Youth is something very new twenty years ago no one mentioned it." »Coco Chanel
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"My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met." »Rodney Dangerfield
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"Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it." »Coco Chanel
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"Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes." »Mickey Mouse
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"You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions." »Senator Patrick Leahy
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"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
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"Walking twenty miles a day keeps the Witch Doctor away." »Johnny Wowk
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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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"We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it." »Jules Renard
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"One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty." »Maxim Gorky
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"Few sinners are saved after the fiirst twenty minutes of a sermon." »Mark Twain
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"If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain." »Winston Churchhill
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"It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago." »Will Rogers
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"The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"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
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"...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Ah, what shall I be at fifty,
should nature keep me alive,
if I find the world so bitter
when I am but twenty-five?" »Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one." »Alexander Pope
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"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." »Muhammad Ali
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"He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one." »Alexander Pope
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