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twenty one
«The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality»
Author: Heywood C. Broun
(Writer)
| About:
Pessimism
| Keywords:
first period, pessimism, prolific, thereabouts, twenty one
«Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.»
Author: Orville Wright
(Inventor)
| Keywords:
air power, engine, flights, Home Alone, inform, longest, mile, press home, Thirty one, Thursday, Thursdays, twenty one, wind power
«My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.»
Author: Bob Hope
(Actor, Comedian)
| Keywords:
bees, birds, liar, my father, steady, The Birds, twenty, twenty one, woodpecker, woodpeckers
«Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.»
Author: Brigham Young
(President)
| Keywords:
age of, community, menace, menaced, menaces, menacing, The Age, The Menace, twenty, twenty one, unmarried, unmarried man, young man
«The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did»
Author: George William Curtis
| About:
Men,
Men and Women,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
fourteen, horny, of a sudden, puberty, thirteen, twenty one
«Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.»
Author: Jay Leno
(Comedian, Host)
| Keywords:
apparently, elected, electoral, electoral votes, Hussein, Iraq, Iraq and, popular, popular vote, President of, Saddam, Saddam Hussein, The Popular, twenty one, vote
«An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
base, come across, conclude, continually, extra, founded, generalization, generalizations, indefinite, previous, taller, terrestrial, twenty one, watched, well-founded
«When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.»
Author: Harry S Truman
(President)
| Keywords:
honors, presidency, saluted, salutes, the presidency, twenty one
«When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Family,
Teenage
| Keywords:
astonished, fourteen, my father, Old Boys, old man, seven, Seven Years, The old man, twenty one