Best twenties & women Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Author:Joy Browne

“I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.”

World Firsts Looks Young Grows Women Five Twenties Fats Reputation Forty Slips Wrinkles

Author:John Dryden

“All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.”

Men Reason Women Taken Judgment Twenties Cooks Maids Good Humor

Author:Samuel Richardson

“The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.”

Thinking Looks Sometimes States Turns Girl Women Marriage Four Twenties Remains Eight Wit Hills Thirty Rejoice Entering Repent Summit Eighteen Plunge Seventeen Wedlock

Author:Samuel Richardson

“Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.”

Age Women Marriage Four Twenties Prudent

Book:A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...

Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...

“When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man...who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties.”

Men Sometimes Age Mother Girl Women Twenties Maturity Frustration Middle Ages Mother Nature Overwork

Author:Mark Hanna

“There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.”

Years Together Form Young Given Women Five Conditions Twenties Fellows Thirty Veteran Thirty Years Gallantry

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.”

“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”

Ifs Men Funny Women Sleep Mistake Jokes Twenties Hilarious Funny Relationship Nineteen Tramps Questions Asked No Sleep Sleeping Around

Author:Joan Rivers

“If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.”

Ifs Looks Funny Women Six Twenties Damn Twelve Sixteen

Author:Chris Rock

“No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.”

Matter Would Be Mother Lost Women Successful Married Twenties Lawyer Pounds Playwright

Author:Wendy Wasserstein

“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”

“It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."”

People Stills Certain Women Lines Forget Let Me Twenties Seven Lovely Faded Lovely Woman

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

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