As good twenty as nineteen. [ Proverb ]

One suit of law breeds twenty. [ Proverb ]

Love hath twenty pair of eyes. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Sc.4 ]

On the twenty second of June,
Jonathan Fiddle went out of tune. [ Epitaph ]

At twenty, every one is republican. [ Lamartine ]

He that chastens one chastens twenty. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Towering in confidence of twenty-one. [ Samuel Johnson ]

He that cuts off twenty years of life
Cuts off so many years of fearing death. [ Horace ]

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who robs a Cambridge-scholar, robs twenty. [ Proverb ]

When dinner has oppress'd one,
I think it is perhaps the gloomiest hour
Which turns up out of the sad twenty-four. [ Byron ]

If he had twenty in a flock,
He would leave but one to go with the cock. [ Proverb ]

What a soul, twenty fathom deep, in her eyes! [ Leigh Hunt ]

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,
Which show like grief itself, but are not so:
For sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears,
Divides one thing entire to many objects. [ William Shakespeare ]

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty,
In times of adversity not one in twenty. [ Proverb ]

The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Her years
Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;
But there are forms which Time to touch forbears,
And turns aside his scythe to vulgar things. [ Byron ]

Eggs will be in three bellies in four and twenty hours. [ Proverb ]

If a daughter you have, she's the plague of your life,
No peace shall you know though you've buried your wife!
At twenty she mocks at the duty you taught her -
Oh, what a plague is an obstinate daughter! [ Sheridan ]

Love at two-and-twenty is a terribly intoxicating draft. [ Ruffini ]

I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live. [ Jas. Drummond Burns ]

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little. [ Roger Ascham ]

Twenty years in the life of a man is sometimes a severe lesson. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. [ Southey ]

Hasten slowly, and without losing heart put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [ Boileau ]

At fifteen, to dance is a pleasure; at twenty five, a pretext; at forty, a fatigue. [ A. Ricard ]

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. [ Grattan ]

Since you have been a correcting of me, I have told a hundred and twenty holes in your grater. [ Proverb ]

Twenty ages sunk in eternal night. They are without movement, without light, and without noise. [ Lemoine ]

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five. [ Yogi Berra ]

At eighteen, one adores at once; at twenty, one loves; at thirty, one desires; at forty, one reflects. [ P. de Kock ]

I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty. [ Goethe ]

No man is ever good for much who has not been carried off his feet by enthusiasm between twenty and thirty. [ Froude ]

He that at twenty is not, at thirty knows not, and at forty has not, will never either be, or know, or have. [ Italian Proverb ]

I have seen young ladies of twenty-five affecting a childish ingenuousness which has made me doubt their virtue.

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

It does not take twenty years for men to change their opinions of things which had seemed to them the truest, and most certain. [ La Bruyere ]

He that is not handsome at twenty, strong at thirty, wise at forty, rich at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, wise, or rich. [ Proverb ]

There are cloudy days for the mind as well as for the world, and the man who has the most genius is twenty times a day in the clouds. [ Beaumelle ]

When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalkstones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent. [ George Eliot ]

At twenty, man is less a lover of woman than of women: he is more in love with the sex than with the individual, however charming she may be. [ Ritif de la Bretonne ]

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. [ Dryden ]

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. If women knew what men think, they would be twenty times more coquettish. [ A. Karr ]

Rejected lovers need never despair! There are four and twenty hours in a day, and not a moment in the twenty-four in which a woman may not change her mind. [ De Finod ]

Twenty people can gain money for one who can use it; and the vital question for individuals and for nations, is never how much do they make, but to what purpose do they spend. [ John Ruskin ]

Every age has its different inclinations, but man is always the same. At ten, he is led by sweetmeats, at twenty by a mistress, at thirty by pleasure, at forty by ambition, at fifty by avarice. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? For every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making. [ Sydney Smith ]

I could write down twenty cases, wherein I wished God had done otherwise than He did; but which I now see, had I had my own will, would have led to extensive mischief. The life of a Christian is a life of paradoxes. [ Cecil ]

At the age when the faculties droop, when stern experience has destroyed all sweet illusions, man may seek solitude; but, at twenty, the affections which he is compelled to repress are a tomb in which he buries himself alive. [ E. de Girardin ]

With a pretty face and the freshness of twenty, a woman, however shallow she may be, makes many conquests, but does not retain them: with cleverness, thirty years, and a little beauty, a woman makes fewer conquests but more durable ones. [ A. Dupuy ]

It takes twenty years to bring man from the state of embryo, and from that of a mere animal, as he is in his first infancy, to the point when his reason begins to dawn. It has taken thirty centuries to know his structure; it would take eternity to know something of his soul; it takes but an instant to kill him. [ Voltaire ]

The only thing that has been taught successfully to women is to wear becomingly the fig-leaf they received from their first mother. Everything that is said and repeated for the first eighteen or twenty years of a woman's life is reduced to this: My daughter, take care of your fig-leaf; your fig-leaf becomes you; your fig-leaf does not become you. [ Diderot ]

It is a mathematical demonstration, that these twenty-six letters admit of so many changes in their order, and make such a long roll of differently-ranged alphabets, not two of which are alike, that they could not all be exhausted though a million millions of writers should each write above a thousand alphabets a day for the space of a million millions of years. [ R. Bentley ]

I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. [ Chesterfield ]