#sixty

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. ↗

— Julie Walters

#big #birthdays #bothered #dreadful #felt

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability. ↗

— Shelley Winters

#now #over #respectability #sixty #toward

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

#camel #dog #eighty #fifty #forty

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. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#before #chuckle #eighty #longer #make

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #beautiful #because #else #i

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

— George Wald

#budget #cent #defense #gross #national

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December. ↗

— Earl Weaver

#did #games #hundred #job #last

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

— Dino De Laurentiis

#fantastic #good #mixed #percent #review

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

— Imelda Marcos

#did #had #i #pairs #shoes

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

#boulevard #dinner #every #fifty #friday