Sixty Quotes

The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

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.

Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

Being sixty-five ... became a crossroads. We said, we have nothing to lose, so we can raise hell.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground.

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

At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools....That man has awakened to a new youth....Ergo, he is young.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.

I'm not sixty, I'm "sexty.

What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

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

I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.

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

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs had a bad day.

It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man.

At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.

On Christmas day you can't get sore, your fellow man you must adore. There's time to cheat him all the more the other three hundred and sixty-four

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

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.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber.

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

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.

Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

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

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties.

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.

What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis.

How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.