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If you start working in your twenties and retire at age sixty you may spend as many years in retirement as you did working. — Michael Bivona

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin. — Leslie Mann

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on. — Crispin Glover

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties. — Tommy Rettig

I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives. — Lena Dunham

In your twenties, everything makes you crazy. — John Densmore

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

Our kids are in their twenties now, which is a wonderful time. — Jeff Daniels

I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties. — Paul Theroux

The middle of life has these cul-de-sac days. In your twenties you think, Surely I am going somewhere, and later
as in now
you think, Nope. — Leslie Daniels

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

Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life. — Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans. — Pope Paul VI

I think part of making any decision in your twenties is realizing there is no twenty-four flavor table. It's a myth. — Meg Jay

Part of being in your twenties is not knowing an ally when you see one. — Patton Oswalt

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table. — Malcolm Gladwell

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

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going. — Paula Fox

Within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties. — M.M. Kaye

Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage. — Louis Rukeyser

Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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

I think you make mistakes, especially in your twenties, where you date guys you wouldn't even be friends with - ever. — Rashida Jones

In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole. — Cheryl Strayed

Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become. — Adam Braun

As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever. — David LaChapelle

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties. — Ian Somerhalder

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are. — Ethan Hawke

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

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough. — Delta Burke

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your twenties are the worst part of your life that you don't actually know at the time is terrible. — Julie Klausner

Being a single girl in New York ... it's what you should be doing in your twenties! — Emilia Clarke

Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed. — Camille Paglia

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it — Jules Renard

Truth be told, they had never been particularly passionate, not even in their early twenties. Zach had never considered himself a passionate man. — Alessandra Hazard

I mentally attacked myself for most of my teens and twenties before I learned how to love myself in my thirties. — Jenn Sadai

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them. — Helen Vendler

According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him. — Morey Amsterdam

Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time. — Andy Rooney

Your twenties is all about taking your childhood out on everyone that you run into. — Bill Burr

Time is weird in your twenties. It's intense, and you feel like it's running out. But you'll get to thirty and see you are still here on the planet. — Parker Posey

If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married. — Gene Simmons

What would an A in your twenties even mean?" I wondered out aloud. "I don't know. That's the problem. I just feel like I shouldn't be less-than. — Meg Jay

I look so fondly back on that time in my life when you first got an agent and you were in your mid-twenties and the world was your oyster. — Katie Lowes

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult. — Robbie Robertson

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born. — Mignon McLaughlin

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion. — Pauline Kael

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

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

I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story. — Kathryn Harrison

I'm just as normal as anybody else. I'm just probably in the same place as many people in their mid to late twenties are. — Tristan Prettyman

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

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

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

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

I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal. — Sue Miller

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

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties. — Michael Crichton

We don't do all our growing up between birth and adolescence or even our twenties. If we're fortunate, we never stop. — Diane Guerrero

There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women. — Laura Carmichael

Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had. — Anna Sewell

I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years. — Thelma Houston

Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write. — Jillian Hervey

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity. — Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I've been drunk only once in my life. But that lasted for twenty-three years. — W.C. Fields

The Twenties outfits are all about freedom and loose, flowing lines, whereas in 'Cinderella,' I had to wear corsets and big huge skirts. — Lily James

My twenties were my practice. My thirties were when I really hit my stride with GoPro and did all the heavy lifting to build the business. — Nick Woodman

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties. — Elliot Cowan

America: Twenty million illegal aliens can't be wrong! — Richard Jeni

I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother. — Agnes Varda

Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. — Malcolm X

No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day. — Rita Hayworth

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done. — Barry Diller

To me, a yummy mummy is a mum in her twenties, like Donna Air. — Trinny Woodall

Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now? — Janis Joplin

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient. — Bill Gates

Wow. I'm twenty years old. Rene Descartes invented analytic geometry in his early twenties. Talk about pressure. — Anna Kay Akana