Sixty Quotes

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. View quote
John Updike
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. View quote
James Thurber
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty. View quote
Imelda Marcos
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. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness. View quote
James Thurber
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? View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. View quote
Will Durant
The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice. View quote
Denis Diderot
The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits -- ah! that is another matter -- twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent -- the sky is the limit. View quote
Smedley Butler
I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner. (Albert Kesselring)
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. View quote
Al Lewis
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. View quote
Robert Toombs
It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it, and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams. ... what has no meaning admits no explanation. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in which all our enquiries must end. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me. View quote
Ralph Steadman
Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the forms of free government, because they have copied them. To its benefits they have not attained, because that standard of civilization is above their race. Revolution succeeds Revolution, and the country mourns that some petty chief may triumph, and through a sixty days' government ape the rulers of the earth. View quote
Jefferson Davis
In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was twelve! And on the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow - together! And I hadn't done drugs. View quote
Lewis Black
I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I would care to call consciousness. But I am also confident [...] that vultures and sloths, as close evolutionary relatives with the same basic set of organs, lie on our side of any meaningful (and necessarily fuzzy) border-and that we are therefore not mistaken when we look them in the eye and see a glimmer of emotional and conceptual affinity. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles - and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech - look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic. View quote
Philip Roth
What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification. (Emil Cioran)
The most spectacular event of the past half century is one that did not occur. We have enjoyed sixty years without nuclear weapons exploded in anger. View quote
Thomas Schelling
With sixty professors there are roughly eighteen hundred pairs of professors. Out of that many pairs it was not surprising that there were some whose members did not like one another. View quote
Stanislaw Ulam
Looking fifty is great-if you're sixty. View quote
Joan Rivers
My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. View quote
William Osler