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
Deaths terror and delirium.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“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 (17131784)
“A few years before I lived in the woods there was what was called a winged cat in one of the farmhouses.... This would have been the right kind of cat for me to keep, if I had kept any; for why should not a poets cat be winged as well as his horse?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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