Seventy Quotes

260 Seventy quotes by 222 unique authors

Let us not forget the East Bank of the (River) Jordan, where seventy per cent of the inhabitants belong to the Palestinian nation. — George Habash
My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. — Samuel Johnson
You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't have the aggressiveness… — Eddie Arcaro
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything… — George Bernard Shaw
Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out. — Harold Robbins
Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without… — Charles Bukowski
I know of nothing more useful to you than four matters: surrender to Allah, to humbly entreat Him, to think the best of Him, and… — Ibn Ata Allah
I will help-but only so much, only so far. It is not that I believe these children are less than my own. It is not… — Sharman Apt Russell
I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion. — Herbert Hoover
I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia. — Winston Churchill
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and… — Thomas A. Edison
One of the things Obama's been doing is deliberately trying to increase the percentage of our population that is dependent on government for their living.… — Phyllis Schlafly
Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the seventy… — Peter Benchley
I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man… — Anthony Trollope
We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie. — Joycelyn Elders
With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to… — Tim Vine
The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy.… — Siri Hustvedt
Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out. — Thomas Lansing Masson
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency. — Wendell Phillips
I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk… — Bowie Kuhn
The same costume will be Indecent ten years before its time, Shameless five years before its time, Outre (daring) one year before its time, Smart… — James Laver
If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen. — Maude Royden
The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to… — William Maxwell
The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop. — George Vaillant
If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time the… — Robert Grudin

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