“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
“It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.”
“Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”