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)

    “Twenty can’t be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty’s eternal love affairs.”
    —Emily Carr (1871–1945)

    “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;Mit is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)