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Twenties Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex
- They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.
- You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each…
- In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can…
- If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked…
More Twenties Quotes
- The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. — Chinua Achebe
- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by… — Charles Babbage
- When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give… — Lauren Bacall
- I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever… — Eric Bana
- I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that… — Antonio Banderas
- In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. — Jacques Barzun
- Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people. — Samantha Bee
- Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of… — Irving Berlin
- Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. — Ambrose Bierce
- Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. — Jim Bishop
- Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from… — Erma Bombeck