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The eighteenth Century thought itself to be the age of reason; the nineteenth century thought itself to be the age of common sense while the twentieth century can only think of itself as the age of uncommon nonsense.
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The nineteenth century is called the century of hygiene, and the twentieth is the century of medicine. The twenty-first century may be the century of behavioral change. Changing everyday, long-term behaviors
how we exercise, what we eat
is the key to adding years and quality to our lives.
Ahead by a Century
We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.
The nineteenth century was closer than most women thought.
19 m Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.
That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century.
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
The seventeenth, Desmond! Come along at once; everything's all right. We're going to buy a huge bracelet for my wife, an enormous cigarette-holder for Madame Peloux, and a tiny tie-pin for you
Congratulations!
If I may be so bold
Only 40 years to go
Before you're a century old
Just saying
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.
It is the lineaments of the years which form the countenance of the century.
Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.
In my opinion,' he said, 'the nineteenth century is passing for everyone except us.
One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century.
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!
The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outcomes is possible. Decisions and actions during this time have lasting ramifications.
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.
The last birthday that's any good is 23.
I was 20 myself. Once upon a time.
She's twenty-six years old.
At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.
At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead.
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.
quickly. Afterward, things are not so easy. The twenties are that critical period of adulthood. These are the years when it will be easiest to start the lives we want. And no matter what we do, the twenties are an inflection point - the great reorganization - a
TWENTY I BATTLE MY JERK RELATIVE
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
But I recently celebrated my thirtieth birthday and became acutely aware of my age, and the passing of time.
You'd have to take your shoes and breeches off to count to twenty-one!
With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century
It seems [that] everybody wants to be a twenty-something except for many twenty-somethings themselves. All around, 'thirty is the new twenty' is starting to get a new reaction: 'God, I hope not.
That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures.
Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the late twentieth century.
I feel like I haven't started yet. I'm looking forward to the ninth album, the thirtieth movie.
It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.
The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific progress was so gigantic that it seems rash to predict that any of its successors can be more important in the life of any nation.
19 It will be like a man who flees from a lion only to have a bear confront him. He goes home and rests his hand against the wall only to have a snake bite him.
By your eighteenth birthday you're supposed to know. They're supposed to tell you. Splicer. True Born. Laster.
I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.
When you're cool for twenty,
you get paid for twenty-one.
Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th
No need to have wisdom and sage
But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade
Do try to act more your age
I used to be twenty. Then I was twenty-one, twenty-two, and so on. And then I became a mother and could no longer even distinguish the difference between twenty-one and twenty-two or the difference between thirty-eight and thirty-nine.
Being twenty-something is all about taking it in: eating it, drinking it, and spitting out the seeds later. It's about being fearless, and stupid, and dangerous, and unfocused, and abandoned. It's about being in it, not on top of it
Somewhere in a corner of our hearts, we are always twenty," I said. How
24. Home Again Aunt
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
I don't feel like myself. But I do think I might pass for twenty-one. I'm under this makeup somewhere, I'm just not sure where.
I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.
These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.
Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.
I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love.
The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.
I was eighteen, baby! I could finally... vote and buy all those cartons of cigarettes I'd been pining for. Yippee
Life begins at eighty.
Yes I remember my sixteenth." Vitellius said "Wonderful omen! Happily chicken in my underpants."
"Excuse me.
It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end.
September 15th. - This is the month of quiet days, crimson creepers, and blackberries; of mellow afternoons in the ripening garden; of tea under acacias instead of too shady beeches; of wood fires in the library in chilly evenings.
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
My mind never left 20, because once it does, that's when you start to die.
We're entering our third century now, but it's wrong to judge our nation by its years. The calendar can't measure America because we were meant to be an endless experiment in freedom, with no limits to our reaches, no boundaries to what we can do, no end point to our hopes.
Somewhere around twenty-five, bizarre becomes immature.
Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them.
I feel like I'm twenty again.
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
If it was nineteen years until my new life began, that meant that I was now a hundred years old. He was the singularly most beautiful thing I had seen in a hundred years.
The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.
You're so seventeenth century.
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
I'll take 14 out of 15 any day of the week, any week of the month, any month of the year, any year of the century. I don't know what comes after century.
I'm nineteen tree rings and mashed acorns stop up my veins when I can't clot. Oh god, you beautiful person, I'll let you lick the salt off of my tattoos as if they were wounds, wounds made of ink and stories.
And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.
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One of the awful secrets of seventeen is that it still has seven hiding inside it. Sometimes seven comes tumbling out, even when seventeen wants to be Grown-Up and proud. This is also one of the awful secrets of seventy.
She was one of those women who clearly hadn't accepted she wasn't nineteen anymore,
The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love.
There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.
I'm not 20 anymore, and I feel it.
Just a month from this day, on the twentieth of September, 1850, I shall be sitting in this chair, in this study, at ten o' clock at night, longing to die, weary of incessant insight and foresight, without delusions and without hope.
Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.
Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.
When it was the One Hundred and Forty-first Night,
String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.
There is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.
Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and ... not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.
Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.
They've gone to the land of Nineteen, he thought. Whatever is there.
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.
each second was a century
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.
Thirty
the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
The first twenty-three years of my life are the ones that shaped me, and the fact
I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.
When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.Clue-- Patrick Kane
But before twenty is the joy of the body, and after thirty is the joy of the mind; before twenty is the pleasure of protection and security; and after thirty, the joy of parentage and home. How
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
18th February 2015