Twenty Grades

Famous quotes containing the words twenty and/or grades:

    Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man—and after that, praying.
    Irish proverb.

    Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down, does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.
    Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)