It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.

— Golda Meir

At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have…

— Hokusai

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron… I should have been able to do better.

— Ezra Pound

Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

— Ben Hecht

Since we are what we are, what shall we be But what we are? We are, we have Six feet and seventy years, to…

— Stephen Spender

It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.

— Aimee Carter

I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because…

— Agnes Repplier

When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a…

— Ruth St. Denis

After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment.

— W. A. Criswell

I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say from sixty-five…

— William Robertson Nicoll

Don't live the same year seventy-five times and call it a life.

— Robin S

It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and…

— Lucy Stone

Jose DeLeon on his career has seventy-three wins and one-hundred and five RBIs.

— Ralph Kiner

I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.

— Michael Dirda

I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.

— Janis Joplin