“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”

Robert Frost

Robert Frost - “A mother takes twenty years to make a...” 1

Similar quotes

“It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.”

Baudouin I King of Belgium
Read more

“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
Read more

“A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.”

Barry Hughart
Read more

“For the first time in twenty-two years after the jaw tilt, Feb didn’t take her eyes off him. And for the first time in twenty-two years, he gave her a smile.”

Kristen Ashley
Read more

“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”

Joan Rivers
Read more