#sixty

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

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

#become #day #devotes #hard #himself

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'. ↗

— John McCarthy

#became #later #ninety #over #sixty