Twenty Five Quotes

187 quotes by 170 authors

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
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
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
Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming. — Benjamin Franklin
"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
Somewhere around twenty-five, bizarre becomes immature. — Bridget Fonda
There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five. — William Holden
I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs. — Nadine Gordimer
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
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

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