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One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
— Maxim Gorky
Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened.
— William Pene Du Bois
The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.[The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.] — George Herbert
Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.
— Samuel Johnson
I've found out more in this one cursed night than I'd have learned in twenty years of living.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In twenty years I've found only one intelligent man in the whole town, and he's mad.
— Anton Chekhov
She still weighed only forty kilos and stood one metre twenty-four centimetres tall.
— Stieg Larsson
One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.
— Charles A. Reich
In most agricultural societies at least one out of every three children died before reaching twenty.5
— Yuval Noah Harari
In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
— Brigham Young
I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
— William Shakespeare
It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
— William Shakespeare
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
When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.
— Arthur Miller
I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.
— Giovanni Ribisi
To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.
— Elsa Maxwell
They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.
— C.S. Lewis
She understood that even the worst days contained only twenty-four hours. One did what one had to do to get through them, and afterwards, one slept.
— Barbara Hambly
At twenty every one is republican.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.
— Gayle Forman
And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.
— Judith Guest
Twenty-one years is time enough to be a fuck-up, sure, but not time enough to be a lost cause.
— Caitlin Doughty
THREE YEARS. One month. Twenty-six days.
— T.J. Klune
Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear.
— Toni Morrison
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
Good girl, Rachel. Now, let's get the hell out of here. Your mother has a headache that won't quit until you're twenty-one
— David Sedaris
It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.
— James A. Baldwin
The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty; In time of adversity not one in twenty.
— James Howell
I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and ... and ... and ...
— Madeleine L'Engle
I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.
— Malcolm X
When you're cool for twenty,you get paid for twenty-one. — Miguel Pinero
talked to every person aged twenty-one
— Malcolm Gladwell
The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.
— Rufus Wainwright
No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.
— Rita Hayworth
Rose has a good heart, of course, especially for one that has been broken every week for the past twenty years.
— Jonathan Rice
twenty-one Gladers in all. Every last one of those who'd stayed behind and fought was covered in Griever sludge and human blood,
— James Dashner
There is something so INEVITABLE about seven-and-twenty; it is decidedly on the wrong side of the decade for a lady, particularly an unmarried one.
— Stephanie Barron
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
— Margaret Oliphant
He met her on 26 December 1969, five days before the end of the sixties, when he was twenty-two and she was twenty-one.
— Salman Rushdie
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
For many people "twenty years of experience" is really one year of experience repeated twenty times.
— Reid Hoffman
The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
— Nastassja Kinski
It seems unlikely that so much literaturecould be made from twenty-six letters.
Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled
down to one sentence? — Brenda Shaughnessy
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
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
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
For people have four shadows; four politicians have twenty shadows or hundred or more! One person with many fake faces!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
Two world wars in twenty-one years, and the universal dread of nuclear incineration. This time God has given us John Paul II,
— Fulton J. Sheen
One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar.
— Henry IV Of France
Give me a number between one and twenty."Unable to see where this was going, she shrugged. "Eleven."
"You lose. Now strip off your clothes. — Suzanne Wright
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
— Andre Malraux
I've read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried.
— Lisa Scottoline
The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Every decision you make is an important one, whether there are twenty thousand people working for you or just one.
— Donald Trump
Limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax. His family were enormously
— F Scott Fitzgerald
All I have learned in the twenty years that I have been a monk I can sum up in one sentence: All that arises passes away. This I know.
— Eckhart Tolle
There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
— William Shakespeare
No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.
— Thomas Jefferson
Layne knew he was in love with her. Not only that, he'd never stopped loving her. Not once, not for a second, not for twenty-one years.Fuck him. — Kristen Ashley
Don't you think you're quite young?''I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old. — Paulo Coelho
