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Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. — Robert Southey

My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman. — Andy Behrman

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years. — Annie Lennox

Twenty-five or thirty words are supposed to be enough in a news bullet to explain either a war or an unusual set of Christmas lights. — Octavia E. Butler

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one. — Samuel Johnson

cards. Twenty-four — Damian Harper

I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself. — H.L. Mencken

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. — Thomas Jefferson

I feel like I'm twenty again. — Elizabeth Horton-Newton

I thought I saw my entire future once, every moment of it, until the day of my death. I spent it in her arms. Then after twenty years, she left. — Jessica Fortunato

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative. — Honore De Balzac

Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Sam's just dealing with some issues. He recently came to the realization that he's a twenty-year-old virgin prude. — T.J. Klune

Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's. — Brian Joyce

I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man. — William Shakespeare

Take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace — Irvine Welsh

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan ... The Ku Klux's gone ... It'll never come back. — Harper Lee

Fucking Julia." I flung my long hair back over my shoulder, hiding the fresh bite. Twenty-eight years old with a hickie. Awesome. — Eliza Lentzski

{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons. — Andrea Bouchaud

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama

Why is it that we only see short-term benefits? No one wants to invest in the future if it's more than twenty-four hours away, — Evan Currie

I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years. — Five For Fighting

I was only twenty-five, much to young to die. Probably about the right age to become a complete hypochondriac, however. — Kylie Scott

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man. — Patrick Ness

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian. — George Bernard Shaw

Nature gives you the face you possess at twenty . . . Life the face you possess at thirty. But the face you have at fifty is the face you deserve. — Karleen Koen

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not. — Oscar Wilde

It seems unlikely that so much literature
could be made from twenty-six letters.
Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled
down to one sentence? — Brenda Shaughnessy

Twenty years old and this man stood ready to take on the world, all for the sake of our unborn baby. — A.B. Shepherd

Twenty talks, hundred thoughts, deep into the soul
Another soul penetrates. — Upasana Banerjee

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty. — Bill Ayers

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. — Benjamin Franklin

Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations. — Robert Genn

It's arguable that Ayn Rand's finest achievement was crashing the economy twenty-five years after her death. — Jarett Kobek

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. — Alexander Pope

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. — Ambrose Bierce

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty. — Moliere

Only twenty-six British universities have total endowments greater than the amount given annually to the Ohio State University football team. I — Bill Bryson

I know you're almost forty, look almost thirty, think you're just over twenty and act as though you're barely ten. — Andrzej Sapkowski

Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows. — William Shakespeare

A siren is the sound of the twenty-first-century cavalry on the way. — Rosamund Lupton

A Federal research project selected 1,600 children who had been abused or neglected and followed them for nearly twenty years. — Gavin De Becker

I am nearly twenty-nine, so I pass you there; though I am but four feet, and not likely to grow any more, save sideways. — J.R.R. Tolkien

In the Twenty-first century we are going to confront a climate shock worse than any mankind has ever experienced. — Guillaume Faye

Give a Paris woman at bay four-and-twenty hours, and she will overthrow a ministry. — Honore De Balzac

I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs. — Nadine Gordimer

I don't feel like myself. But I do think I might pass for twenty-one. I'm under this makeup somewhere, I'm just not sure where. — Nyrae Dawn

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above. — Paul Desmond

The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years. — Ingrid Bergman

You've heard the freshmen fifteen? Be prepared for the Shaw twenty. — Emma Chase

Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century. — Oliver DeMille

How do you leave someone who has been such an important part of your life for twenty-eight years, someone you love more than life itself? — K.S. Ruff

Instead, I pull out my wallet and hand Mrs. Carnes a twenty, which is the smallest I have, and she counts off the books. — Jennifer Niven

Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago. — William J. Clinton

Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data. — Dennis Ritchie

TWENTY YEARS AFTER the end of air travel, the caravans of the Traveling Symphony moved slowly under a white-hot sky. — Emily St. John Mandel

it is not an exaggeration to state that any company designed for success in the twentieth century is doomed to failure in the twenty-first. — David S. Rose

Bridget. Sleeping with a twenty-nine year old off Twitter on the second date is not 'rather like in Jane Austen's day'. (Talitha) — Helen Fielding

By God, if I were twenty years younger," he thundered, "I'd drag you outside and horsewhip you!" Steven — Linda Lael Miller

For people have four shadows; four politicians have twenty shadows or hundred or more! One person with many fake faces! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The fellow who can pay only twenty-five cents to see a ball game always will be just as welcome at Comiskey Park as the box seat holder. — Charles Comiskey

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy. — Joe Flanigan

TWENTY I BATTLE MY JERK RELATIVE — Rick Riordan

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum. — Tania Bruguera

But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?
398 — Hilary Mantel

We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at twenty-five, but if we weren't perhaps we should be less wise at fifty. — W. Somerset Maugham

It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains. — Jane Wiedlin

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn. — Leo Tolstoy

Brita said, 'I read at home, I read in hotels, I take a book with me on a twenty-minute trip to the dentist. Then I read in the waiting room. — Don DeLillo

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers. — Edward Abbey

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks. — Peter Benchley

At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'm not wild about those twenty-four hour marinades — Julia Child

I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered. — George Eliot

Stellar Wind resurrected Cold War tactics with twenty-first-century technology. It let the FBI work with the NSA outside of the limits of the law. — Tim Weiner

Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you. — Alfred Hitchcock

It's ironic, really, isn't it? Nineteen-year age gap, and it's the old bloke who comes in his pants, and the twenty-something with performance issues. — Jay Northcote

If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty. — Jacob M. Appel

We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. — Alice Paul

The illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner. — Shirley Maclaine

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one ... Then I thought he was a genus. — Mark Twain

Fear, delight, and being twenty were made for each other: — Mark Helprin

Twenty somethings who aren't at least a little scared about their relationships are often the ones who are being the least thoughtful. — Meg Jay

Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked. — Oveta Culp Hobby

Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day. — Gil Scott-Heron

Ruby's tenth birthday party. She wore a red dress and we skated and she told me we were halfway to twenty and someday we would go to France. — Catherine Lacey

He smiled. "I guess somewhere in a corner of our hearts, we are always twenty. — Martha Hall Kelly

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years. — R. Lee Ermey

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer. — Ted Cruz

What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. — William Shakespeare

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent. — Henry A. Kissinger

There are some cloudy days for the mind as well as for the world; and the man who has the most genius is twenty times a day in the clouds. — Laurent Angliviel De La Beaumelle

You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions. — Joseph Pilates

What they don't tell you is that you're more confused at twenty than you were at seventeen — Penelope Douglas

In 1482, Quasimodo was about twenty years of age; Claude Frollo, about thirty-six. One had grown up, the other had grown old. — Victor Hugo

We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild. — Thomm Quackenbush

If you don't do crazy things when you're twenty, then you do them when you're sixty and then, it looks pathetic. — Tionne Rogers

The Church of God could not live twenty four hours without Rhodes rolls at Thanksgiving. — Wilford Woodruff

some twenty more miles on an old two-lane country road. Traffic was light, just a couple of pickups and a Volkswagen, — Catherine Coulter