I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with…

I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I’d only be 48. That’s the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

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Quoted from an an interview with Glenna Syse in Time Magazine (New York, 15 August 1960); Time’s editors corrected Thurber’s arithmetic

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