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Definition of Sixty

Sixty

Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.

The sum of six times ten; sixty units or objects.

A symbol representing sixty units, as 60, lx., or LX.

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Sixty Quotations

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
Theodore Roosevelt

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Rudyard Kipling

Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.
Joan Rivers

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
Ansel Adams

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Horace Mann

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
David Ogilvy

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
Daniel Boone

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
James Thurber

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
James Thurber

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.
Will Durant

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

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.
Ellen DeGeneres

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
John Updike

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.
Jerry Seinfeld

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

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?
J. Paul Getty

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.

There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.
Manfred von Richthofen

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
Shelley Winters

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
Camille Pissarro

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
Mason Cooley

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?
Logan P. Smith

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Thomas Moore

Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.
Michael Steele

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.
George Wald

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
Emily Carr

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Sixty Translations

sixty in Afrikaans is sestig
sixty in Danish is tres
sixty in Dutch is zestig
sixty in French is soixante
Sixty in German is sechzig
sixty in Hungarian is hatvan
sixty in Italian is sessanta
sixty in Norwegian is seksti
sixty in Portuguese is sessenta
sixty in Spanish is sesenta
sixty in Swedish is sextio

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