Equivalent Sexagenary Year

Famous quotes containing the words equivalent and/or year:

    When the apple is ripe it will fall.
    —Irish proverb.

    An English equivalent to this might be, “To everything there is a season.”

    You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
    Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)