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

When a woman reaches forty, she must wait twenty years for her husband to catch up.

It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.

A woman raises a boy into a man, loving him so intensely that her commitment finally repulses him.

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.

All these years you have made a boy of him. But with me, he shall be a man

I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

Any fool can make a child but it takes a man to raise a child

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

It takes a long time for a father to drive the love out of a child.