Twenty Minutes

Famous quotes containing the words twenty minutes, twenty and/or minutes:

“It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)

“With hym ther was his sone, a yong squier,
A lovyere and a lusty bacheler,
With lokkes crulle as they were leyd in presse.
Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse.
Of his stature he was of evene lengthe,
And wonderly delyvere, and of greet strengthe.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“For certain minutes at the least
That crafty demon and that loud beast
That plague me day and night
Ran out of my sight;
Though I had long perned in the gyre,
Between my hatred and desire....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)