Seventy Quotes

260 Seventy quotes by 222 unique authors

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time. — Will Ferrell
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. — Helen Hayes
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys… — Lee Iacocca
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the… — St. Jerome
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest. — Samuel Johnson
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't… — Doris Lessing
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. — Ralph Nader
There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause… — Nathan Myhrvold
People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I… — Jonathan Sacks
They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the… — Casey Stengel
A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles. — Mark Zupan
Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest,” Mrs. Grogan was saying, “and peace at last.” Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud’s, who… — John Irving
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals… — George Bernard Shaw
You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a… — Jodi Picoult
Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you… — Dave Barry
In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get… — Sam Harris
At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your… — Mark Haddon
A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours… — Amy Hempel
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and… — Hunter S. Thompson
Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven… — Jasper Fforde
...An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand... — Nicole Krauss
Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened? — Ann Landers
If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much… — George MacDonald Fraser

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