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“Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.”

“The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.”

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.”

Long Five Mets South Twilight Sixty Routes Surviving Nineteen Omen Cubs End Of The Road Vixens

Book:Your Native Land, Your Life

Source: Your Native Land, Your Life

“Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.”

Five Sixty

Author:Clement Attlee

“My sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and always enjoyed the newest one more than any that went before; my brother had accumulated forty-two brands of Christianity before he was called away.”

Years Two Christianity Five Brother Disease Brands Enjoyed My Brother Five Years Forty My Sister Sixty Zealous

Author:Mark Twain

“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days later, we try again and find that the same thing has happened. Each time the goal is reached, it becomes Not So Much Fun, and we're off to reach the next one, then the next one, then the next.”

Thinking Trying Three Next Fun Process Goal Five Happened Hundred Opening Sixty Shaking Lifting Try Again Examining The Next One Christmas Present

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.”

Age Three Wonder Five Minutes Missing Picks Phones Broke Cents Sixty Hello

Book:The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz

Source: The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz

“I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given.”

World Persons Two Use Given Walks Half Wonder Steps Five Thousand Lifetime Average Miles Around The World Sixty Thousand Miles Half Time

Book:You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

“One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.”

Years Age Five Periods Battle Consequence Ultimate Five Years Helpful Sixty Continuing Colleagues Seventies Persuading Qualifying Ultimate Success

Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

“That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.”

Needs Feels Years Difficult Five Advantage Five Years Sixty Impatient Difficult Days

Author:Thornton Wilder

“Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?”

Facts Home Age Community Five Media Acceptance Percent Old Age Experts Sixty Emphasis Ninety Nursing Nursing Home

Book:Fountain of Age

Source: Fountain of Age

“Time the healer (Time the killer) flies faster here in Rome than anywhere else in the world, I believe ... here in Rome there are or seem to be strange differences in the value of things. For instance, the pound weight, instead of being sixteen ounces, is only twelve; the foot measure, instead of being twelve inches, is only nine; and I think, in some way, this must apply to time as well, so that the hour, instead of being sixty minutes long, is only forty-five!”

“The bus scares me. Way too many gross people on the bus. Sixty-five people on the bus and I was the last one on. I felt like calling Unsolved Mysteries. 'Yeah, I found everybody.”

People Way Lasts Found Felt Five Mystery Calling Yeah Scare Bus Sixty Gross Unsolved Mysteries

Author:Kathleen Madigan

“There's nothing like throwing up out a bus door, going sixty-five miles an hour.”

Hours Five Doors Miles Bus Throwing Sixty Throwing Up

Author:Izzy Stradlin

“I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.”

Ifs Thinking Years Justice Party Support Five Members Five Years Labour Sixty Peace And Justice Labour Party Campaigning

Author:Tony Benn

“Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber.”

Trying Years Five Teacher Mood Ruins Five Years Sixty Five Year Olds Condom Recurring Cucumbers

Book:Ranting Again

Source: Ranting Again

“If you see anyone from about sixteen to sixty-five and they’re male, shoot ’em. Kill every male you see.”

Ifs Five Males Ems Sixty Sixteen Snipers

Author:Chris Kyle

“One of the sadder things, I think, Is how our birthdays slowly sink: Presents and parties disappear, The cards grow fewer year by year, Till, when one reaches sixty-five, How many care we're still alive?”

Thinking Years Stills Care Grows Party Five Alive Aging Disappear Cards Fewer Sixty

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on sixty-five.”

Might Hurt Five Six Twenties Sixty Disguise Old Woman Been Hurt I've Been Hurt

Author:Aretha Franklin

“Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.”

Play Games Loses Five Team Baseball Seasons Teeth Sixty Best Team

Author:George Will

“there is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year.”

Years Moments Three Hours Five Four Week Tomorrow Hundred Twenties Seven Yesterday Sixty Seven Days

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“Sixty eight percent of Republicans don't believe in evolution. On the other hand, only five percent of monkeys believe in Republicans.”

Believe Hands Five Evolution Republican Percent Don't Believe Eight Sixty Monkeys

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Sixty-five percent of Americans say they know nothing about either Muhammad or Islam.”

Knows Five Percent Islam Sixty Muhammad

Author:Deepak Chopra

“On a certain scale, it does look like I do a lot. But that’s my day, all day long, sitting there wondering when I’m going to be able to get started. And the routine of doing this six days a week puts a little drop in a bucket each day, and that’s the key. Because if you put a drop in a bucket every day, after three hundred and sixty-five days, the bucket’s going to have some water in it.”

Ifs Looks Littles Long Doe Able Certain Three Water Wonder Five Week Keys Six Hundred Sitting Scales Each Day Routine Sixty Buckets

Author:John McPhee

“I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.”

Ifs Years Age Five Months Aging Eight Forty Sixty Fifteen Forty Eight Geriatrics

Author:James Thurber

“Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.”

Three Waiting Simple Half Five Charity Saving Impulse Forty Quarters Sixty Saving Money

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.”

Want Long Social Waiting Enjoy Five Security Sixty Enjoy Life Social Security

Book:The comedy of Neil Simon

Source: The comedy of Neil Simon

“What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.”

Stills Bigs Age Jobs Deals Five Normal Retirement Sixty Big Deal Retirement Age

Author:Keith Richards

“I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody.”

Years Five Feet Threat Sixty

Author:Shirley Franklin

“Sixty-five countries doing nothing is not a coalition. We need a strategy. That's the first and foremost thing that we need.”

Needs Firsts Country Five Strategy Sixty Doing Nothing Coalitions

Author:Jeb Bush

“In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was twelve! And on the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow - together! And I hadn't done drugs.”

Done Together Lasts Five Four Drug Seasons Snow Thirty Twelve Sixty Lightning Thunder Ninety Last Day

Author:Lewis Black

“We read some things in the Bible three hundred and sixty-five times and they mean nothing to us, then all of a sudden we see what God means, because in some particular we have obeyed God, and instantly His nature is opened up.”

Mean Three Five Particular Hundred Sixty

Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

“People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My grandmother looked at my father with the same eyes when he was sixty and she was eighty-five.”

People Eye Kids Father Worry Five Raised Grandmother Sixty My Grandmother Eighty

Author:Grace Paley

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