Twenty Quotes
1709 quotes by 1322 authors
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
— Chinua Achebe
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
— Jane Austen
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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
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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
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
— Jacques Barzun
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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
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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
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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
— Jim Bishop
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
— Emily Carr
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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
— Muhammad Ali
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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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