Twenties Quotes
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The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.
Tacitus
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When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.
Nostradamus
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When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.
W. H. Auden
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A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
William Feather
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Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties.
Kevin Keegan
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I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.
Janet Jackson
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I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
Bill Gates
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If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Obviously, in my twenties, a lot of downtime was spent having a good time, which I don't regret; that was what I needed to do to get some things out of my system.
Luke Grimes
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When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.
H. G. Wells
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within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.
Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye
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I'd rather see twenty thousand smiling faces than twenty thousand crying people.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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I think, that in the twenty-second century, there will be more female reincarnations at female institutions. Then there'll be competition between male lama institutions and female lama institutions. It'll be a positive sort of competition.
Dalai Lama
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I hate dates. I sit at home all day, and I don't fart once. I go on a date and I've got twenty in the bank straight away.
Carl Barron
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Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
B. F. Skinner
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The advantage my looks gave me was that I wasn't limited to just playing Indian roles when I was abroad, and I've been abroad for almost twenty-five years.
Kabir Bedi
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I lose all track of time on that level. I used to have a really good sense of time. I didn't need a clock to play, and I had a sense of when five, ten, twenty minutes had passed. Now I can only play with a clock.
Z'EV
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Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
William Shakespeare
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In your twenties, everything makes you crazy.
John Densmore The Doors
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Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.
Jesse Livermore
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The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know whats around the corner.
Laura Carmichael
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Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silently, continuously.
E. J. W. Barber
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James
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Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.
William Shakespeare