(286 quotes found)
“He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.”
Chanakya
“Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.”
Mark Twain
“There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.”
William Shakespeare
“What still alive at twenty-two. / A clean, upstanding chap like you! / Sure, if your throat is hard to slit, / Slit your girl's and swing for it.”
Hugh Kingsmill
“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year old men more”
Colleen McCullough
“A poet who has not produced a good poem before he is twenty-five, we may conclude cannot, and never will do so.”
William Wordsworth
“I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting”
“Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.”
Robert Herrick
“Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?”
Janis Joplin
“The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality”
Heywood C. Broun
