If you look at most beauty advertisements, you would think that makeup is only for beautiful women in their early twenties.
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room.
I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.
I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.
I look so fondly back on that time in my life when you first got an agent and you were in your mid-twenties and the world was your oyster.
My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.
The ones who choose to constantly make excuses and the people who are persistently working on their goals, all have twenty four hours in a day.
When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.
Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.
A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.
As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.
Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information.
Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.
