Twenty

Famous quotes containing the word twenty:

“Is not the king’s name twenty thousand names?
Arm, arm, my name! A puny subject strikes
At thy great glory.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

“While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessèd and could bless.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)