Quotes with twenty-somethings

Quotes 61 till 80 of 112.

  • Will Durant Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Bob Hope My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Ezra Pound No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Vladimir Mayakovsky No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk -handsome, twenty-two year old.
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  • James A. Froude No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • A. E. Housman Now, of my threescore years and ten,
    Twenty will not come again,
    And take from seventy springs a score,
    It only leaves me fifty more.

    And since to look at things in bloom
    Fifty springs are little room,
    About the woodlands I will go
    To see the cherry hung with snow.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 2, st. 2-3
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Margaret Oliphant Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Janis Joplin On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
    Janis Joplin
    American singerer (1943 - 1970)
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  • Joan Didion Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
    (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Martha Gellhorn People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.
    Martha Gellhorn
    American novelist, travel writer, and journalist (1908 - 1998)
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  • Sidney Smith So if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years from now by the memory of it.
    Sidney Smith
    English poet (1771 - 1845)
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  • Sir William Osler Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Orville Wright Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.
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  • Bernard Lown Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless. Our enthusiasm for the positive spirit in these deliberations must not blind us to the absence of genuine progress toward disarmament. Twenty-four nuclear bombs are being added weekly to world arsenals.
    Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
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  • Bill Klem That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.
    Bill Klem
    American professional baseball umpire (1874 - 1951)
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  • Jules Feiffer The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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  • Alan Patrick Herbert The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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