Sixty Quotes

• A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

  Arnold Bennett

  Birthday, Retirement, Years

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• One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

  Pablo Picasso

  Birthday, Fortune Cookie, Age

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• How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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• I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

  Imelda Marcos

  Funny, Witty, Fashion

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Forgiveness

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• My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Life, Birthday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Running, Witty, Time

  "If - " st. 4 (1910)

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• You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

  Marie Stopes

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

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• Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.

  Joan Rivers

  Business, Partners, Equal

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• The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.

  Morris Mandel

  Success, Adversity, Sixty Minutes

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• Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

  Hervey Allen

  Age, Five Senses, 20th Birthday

  Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

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• My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Moving, Funny Relationship, Florida

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• Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  Will Durant

  Ignorance, Discovery, Years

  "Books: The Great Gadfly". Time Magazine (review of "The Age of Voltaire" by Will and Ariel Durant), October 8, 1965.

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• The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

  William Osler

  Teacher, Should Have, Age

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.326, Duke University Press

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• Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

  Christine Warren

  Time, Giving, Abuse

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• The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

  David Ogilvy

  Work, Years, Careers

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• Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.

  Al Lewis

  Friday, Sunset, Kids

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• Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

  J. Paul Getty

  Work, Sitting Still, Getting High

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• 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.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Dog, Time, Men

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.158, Shambhala Publications

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• Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Retirement, Age, Twenties

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• Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

  James Thurber

  Kindness, Thinking, Sixty Minutes

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.392, Library of America

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• Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

  George Burns

  Funny, Teacher, Witty

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• Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

  John Updike

  Wisdom, Time, Ideas

  1992 In the New Yorker, Nov.

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• We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

  Will Durant

  People, Twenties, Events

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• The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Regret, Age

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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