#twenty

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#camel #dog #eighty #fifty #forty

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#favorite #first #form #genre #i

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #chewed #fun #got #i

Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five. ↗

— Jerry Hall

#i #looked #texas #twenty-five #well

Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years. ↗

— Monty Hall

#i #overnight #overnight success #success #took

Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs. ↗

— Gregory Hines

#dope #down #drinking #find #got

The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

#really #shows #tv #twenty #were

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#before #chuckle #eighty #longer #make

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#billion #efficiently #lottery #over #raised

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#been #doing #notice #once #people