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Twenties Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- 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…
- Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age…
- You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell…
- The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always…
- I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.
- It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be…
- Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years…
- It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
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