
“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
On his 85th birthday, as quoted in The Observer [London] (21 August 1955)
Quoted from an an interview with Glenna Syse in Time Magazine (New York, 15 August 1960); Times editors corrected Thurber's arithmetic
Letters and interviews
“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
On his 85th birthday, as quoted in The Observer [London] (21 August 1955)
“Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
Actually by financier Bernard Baruch.
Misattributed
History of the Indies (1561)
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (September 9, 1923)
Letters
Source: The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982), Chapter 7, The Battle II, p. 112.
Tears came to his eyes. “In prison those monsters tried to rape me, but I fought back so hard that they cut my stomach open from rib to rib,” he yelled, tearing his shirt open and showing me the huge scar that ran across his whole abdomen, going from his upper right side to his lower left side. “My intestines came out, and they left me for dead, but the guards found me and took me to the hospital. After a week I awoke, and, at the end of that month, I escaped with two Yaqui who’d gotten twenty years for eating an Army mule. Their familias had been starving! And they’d stolen the mule to feed them! “YOU’VE GOT NO RAGE COMPARED TO THAT, PENDEJO! There aren’t enough bullets for me to kill all the racist no-good sons of bitches I’ve met in the United States! But—and this is a big but— anybody can go around killing people! Any damn group of kids can get together and kill! That takes no guts! What takes guts is to have that rage, here inside,” he said, pounding his chest, “and decide to do something good with that rage. My revenge against this racist two-faced country of the United States is that I got rich and became a Republican! So now you come back to the United States, and you do something worthwhile, AND YOU DO IT RIGHT NOW, PENDEJO!
Crazy Loco Love: A Memoir (2008)
“They call me old, but I'm only 65-years old young man.”
Presidential Election Campaign 2012