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)

    Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
    Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)