Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
Now that I am sixty I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
At sixty I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty but I know a great deal more about folly.
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.
There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded had the internal combustion engine had the technology and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes I had one thousand and sixty.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now and we don't know where the hell she is.
Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
I remember things that happened sixty years ago but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago that's sometimes a problem.
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents and only one for birthday presents you know.
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty it will be your own soul's doing.
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty it will be your soul's own doing.