Twenty Quotes

I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. (Woody Allen)
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. View quote
Robert Frost
A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp. View quote
Joan Rivers
What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy? View quote
Freddie Mercury
He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes for he must invent twenty more to maintain that one. View quote
Alexander Pope
If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. View quote
Alphonse Karr
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. View quote
Frederick Douglass
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend. View quote
Phil Ochs
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. (Helen Rowland)
Youth is something very new twenty years ago, no one mentioned it. View quote
Coco Chanel
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. View quote
Lenny Bruce
Greatness The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes. View quote
Billy Wilder
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. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. View quote
Francis Crick
One has to be able to count, if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. View quote
Maxim Gorky
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. View quote
Steven Wright
I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower. (Gypsy Rose Lee)
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
By no means run in debt take thine own measure. Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty. View quote
George Herbert
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us. View quote
Václav Havel