Quotes of Threescore - somelinesforyou

“ Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign. ”

- John Donne

“ The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Will you still need me,will you still feed me..When I'm sixty-four? ”

- Paul McCartney

“ A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. What are threescore years and ten hurriedly and coarsely lived to moments of divine leisure in which your life is coincident with the life of the universe? ”

- Henry David Thoreau
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