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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

In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly. — Nostradamus

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 miss those childish days of long ago, when one day was as long as twenty are now ... — C.J. Heck

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays. — Alice Hoffman

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

It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam — Gayle Forman

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

One had to reach twenty-six to understand even in part the father one had. — Irvin Anthony

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

Songwriting is never one thing. I've spent as long as three months writing a song. Other times I've done it in twenty minutes. — Greg Lake

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

You'd have to take your shoes and breeches off to count to twenty-one! — Scott Lynch

There is one thing. One thing that haunts me from page one to page twenty-two. I have never spoken of it. I have never told another person — James Frey

Twenty-two million cases of hepatitis B are spread every year because of the reuse of syringes. The WHO says one in two injections given is unsafe. — Marc Koska

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

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before. — Prince Philip

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

One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent. — Dan Brown

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

I was a twenty-one-year-old virgin with literary aspirations. — Stephen King

Chapter Twenty-Nine Chapter Thirty Chapter Thirty-One — Anonymous

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

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little. — Roger Ascham

People say that celebrities stop developing emotionally at the age of their success - which for Tom had been with Risky Business at twenty-one. — Leah Remini

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

How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were. — Richard Bach

She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one. — Barbara Pym

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. — Ian McEwan

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

Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started. — John Fante

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

There's more food in one bottle of beer, me lad, than twenty sandwiches. — Roald Dahl

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people. — Samantha Bee

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism. — Malcolm X

And in one drawer, twenty-seven names for tears. Heartdew. Griefhoney. Sadwater. Die Tranen. Eau de douleur. Los rios del corazon. — Janet Fitch

When you're cool for twenty,
you get paid for twenty-one. — Miguel Pinero

talked to every person aged twenty-one — Malcolm Gladwell

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included. — Jerry Saltz

Working in a lab for twenty years has left me with two stories: the one that I have to write, and the one that I want to. Science is an institution — Hope Jahren

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

Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys. — J.M. Barrie

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

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one. — Stephen King

Definition of my alcoholism One was too many and twenty was not enough. — Johnny Mack

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

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

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

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

A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner. — Seth Godin

From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door. — M. J. Hyland

Seven characters are too many for a ten-minute play. It'll be twenty minutes long! Fuck it. One of them is dead and the others can all talk fast. — Tony Kushner

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

At the start of the twenty-first century, the advertising industry is guiding one of history's most massive stealth efforts in social profiling. — Joseph Turow

The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them. — Jerzy Kosinski

Young people who begin drinking before age fifteen are four times more likely to develop alcoholism than those who begin drinking at twenty-one. — Joe Bruzzese

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

I gave up writing for seven years (very biblical) and picked it up again, still clueless and still seeking the exotic, when I was twenty-one. — David Bergen

Is this a bar?" Chubs whispered behind me. "Are we allowed to go in? We're not twenty-one." "Oh, — Alexandra Bracken

One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels. — Carmen Electra