Quotes of Twenty - somelinesforyou

“ Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. ”

- Billy Wilder

“ I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. ”

- Woody Allen

“ 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

“ I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. ”

- Will Rogers

“ Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes. ”

- Mickey Mouse

“ 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

“ Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. ”

- Ellen Glasgow

“ 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

“ Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing. ”

- Andre Malraux

“ I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. ”

- Johannes A. Gaertner

“ The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ 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 took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. ”

- Woody Allen

“ The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year-old men more. ”

- Collen McCullough

“ It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ 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

“ A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp. ”

- Joan Rivers

“ It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it. ”

- Coco Chanel

“ 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 Churchill

“ 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

“ My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. ”

- Rodney Dangerfield

“ A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. ”

- Arnold Bennett

“ The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s. ”

- Jessica Simpson

“ It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us for years. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two twenties. ”

- Douglas William Jerrold

“ I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty. ”

- James A. Froude
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