Sixty Years

Famous quotes containing the words sixty years, sixty and/or years:

    Sixty years ago they smiled
    At lover, husband, first-born child.
    Smiles are for youth. For old age come
    Death’s terror and delirium.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    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.
    Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.
    George V (1865–1936)