Twenty Five Quotes
187 quotes by 170 authors
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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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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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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never…
— Ezra Pound
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Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.
— Benjamin Franklin
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"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by…
— John Updike
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Somewhere around twenty-five, bizarre becomes immature.
— Bridget Fonda
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There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.
— William Holden
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I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
— Nadine Gordimer
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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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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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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it…
— Nikola Tesla
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At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and…
— Jules Feiffer
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For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement…
— Steven Chu
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If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each…
— Edouard Daladier
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The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say,…
— Al Gore
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I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good…
— Anton Chekhov
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Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can…
— Desmond Tutu
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Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started…
— Gregory Hines
Who Wrote These Twenty Five Quotes
170 authors contributed a total of 187 Twenty Five Quotes, led by these top contributors: