Seventy Quotes

260 Seventy quotes by 222 unique authors

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all. — Phyllis McGinley
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit. — Mike Rutherford
Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit. — Sandra Lee
Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League. — Erma Bombeck
Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have… — Olga Korbut
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it. — Larry Niven
It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying… — Harold Brodkey
They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was… — Rudyard Kipling
I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. — David Cassidy
I died last night. Seventy years too young. — Colin Thompson
Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years… — George Bernard Shaw
Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart a love of wonder; the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things and thoughts;… — Samuel Ullman
I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV. — Janis Joplin
The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute. — Omar Khayyam
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 made… — Hokusai
Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either. — Golda Meir
The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er… — William Wordsworth
The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below it. The person… — Rajneesh
Seventy-five percent of our energy around the earth is being poured into war efforts. Are we servants of death and destruction? This 75 percent of… — Rajneesh
How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. — Benjamin Franklin
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy… — Baltasar Gracian
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform… — Rodney Dangerfield
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. — W. Edwards Deming
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to… — George Eliot

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