Sixty Quotes

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

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?

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.

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.

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

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

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head.

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

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

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

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived.

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

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.

Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.

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

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.

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

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good.

It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.