Best Twenties Quotations
1626 Twenties quotes by 1251 unique authors
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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding…
— George Bernard Shaw
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We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a…
— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of…
— George Sand
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Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as…
— George Burns
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
— Henry Ford
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I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.
— Gypsy Rose Lee
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Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When…
— Lorrie Moore
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I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
— Bill Ayers
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Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.
— Phil Ochs
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The name of the game is to talk to people. If you don't talk to people, you can't get started...You knock on twenty doors or…
— Cesar Chavez
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You know why we're good at it? Because we get a lot of practice. This country is only 200 years old, and already we've had…
— George Carlin
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At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.
— Oscar Wilde
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A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar…
— Robert Benchley
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Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.
— Mark Cuban
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Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon…
— Stanley Kubrick
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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute.…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.
— Rupert Sheldrake
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When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius,…
— Woody Allen
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To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.
— Chris Brogan
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When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was…
— Mark Twain
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There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a…
— Pema Chodron
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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours.…
— Melanie Benjamin
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