Best twenties & time Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”

“At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.”

Men Age Time Dog Twenties Aging Thirty Fifty Forty Lions Sixty Seventies Eighty Apes Serpent Camels Peacock

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do.”

Way Persons Enough Time Hours Too Much Four Twenties Busy Busy Person

Book:I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography

Source: I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography

“Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.”

Knows World Years Doe Two Facts Seems Earth Moving Time Turns Reading Walks Our Lives Minutes Reader Ten Crosses Twenties Passing Passings Novelists Thirty Thirty Years

Author:Marcel Proust

“If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.”

Ifs World Years Children Two Time Reading Born Five Twenties Seven Population Thirty Five Years

Author:Robert Bork

“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.”

Time Hours Four Periods Twenties Time Management Concept Of Time

Book:Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

“For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.”

“one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.”

Men Time Twenties Excellence Twenty One Climax

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”

“I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?”

Age Time Five Six Twenties Aging Twenty Five Console

Author:Lord Byron

“Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.”

Littles Time Five Twenties

Author:Charles Dickens

“Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.”

Men Years Mind Wells Has Beens Time Three Results Four Twenties Eight Instance Curious Fixed Dimensions Representation Portraits Sections Geometry Seventeen

Book:The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)

Source: The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)

“You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.”

Time Universe Hours Morning Four Wake Up Twenties Filled Possession Time Management Purses Tissues Good Morning

Author:Arnold Bennett

“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.”

Should Littles Age Time Twenties Aging Nine Forty Suspects Twenty One

Book:Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

“You either like me or you don't. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don't have that kinda time to convince somebody else.”

“Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation, then the meditation has to spread all over your life. Only when you are meditative twenty-four hours a day then can you attain, then you have attained. Even sleeping is meditation.”

“If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.”

Ifs Helping Time Hours Millions Five Week Equal Labor Twenties Helping Others Volunteer Volunteerism

Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.”

Knows Sometimes Seems Lasts Time Hours Forever Four Twenties Mysterious Mysterious Things

Author:Melanie Benjamin

“Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had wanted to save twenty-three pairs of fated Theban fighters. Now everything feels fated and fighting oversweeps its boundaries of time and place and plane.”

Feels Trying War Wanted Time Fighting Three Destiny Band Twenties Sacred Caught Boundaries Fighter Planes Pairs Caught Up Ethos Whirlwind Devising

Book:The Sacred Band

Source: The Sacred Band

“The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.”

People Young Time Given Nations Opinion Destiny Five Depends Twenties Twenty Five

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.”

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

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