Twenty Quotes

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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 the aid of… — 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 you a tremendous… — Lauren Bacall
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 paramount importance that… — 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 stores that went… — Erma Bombeck
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. — Lenny Bruce
The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that… — Smedley Butler
Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve… — Steve Buyer
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five? — Lord Byron
Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process… — Tony Campolo
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So… — George Canning
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible;… — Thomas Carlyle
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. — Emily Carr
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. — Muhammad Ali
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. — Coco Chanel

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