Twenty

Famous quotes containing the word twenty:

“Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her look like a public building.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Bill’s 32. He looks 32. He looked it five years ago, he’ll look it twenty years from now. I hate men.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)