Sixty Quotes

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

Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements.

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.

Stats don’t matter. I care about winning, not stats. If I score 0 points and we win I’m happy. If I score 50, 60 points, break the records, and we lose.

We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

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

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.