| "If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence." »John B. Gough |
| "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 |
| "Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." »Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| "One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty." »Maxim Gorky |
| "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 |
| "Youth is something very new twenty years ago no one mentioned it." »Coco Chanel |
| "You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions." »Senator Patrick Leahy |
| "Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia." »Woody Allen |
| "...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 |
| "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 |
| "At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths-your abilities and your failings." »Grard Depardieu |
| "A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp." »Joan Rivers |
| "The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep." »Alan Patrick Herbert |
| "She's the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome." »John Green |
| "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But 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 |
| "You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive." »Thomas Arnold Bennett |
| "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." »Mark Twain |
| "If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double." »Robert H Bork |
| "Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty." »Ellen Glasgow |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
