Seventy Quotes

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. (Woody Allen)
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 an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past - and when you're seventy, nearly all of you. View quote
Jean Anouilh
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
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 change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. View quote
Doris Lessing
Being seventy is not a sin. View quote
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 the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height. View quote
William Wordsworth
People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats. View quote
Leonora Carrington
I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century. View quote
Anne Stevenson
Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Oh, to be seventy again! (Georges Clemenceau)
In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Advice,” chuckled Doña Vorchenza. "The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage. View quote
Scott Lynch
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. View quote
Helen Hayes
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. View quote
W. Edwards Deming
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency. View quote
Wendell Phillips
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of. View quote
Matsuo Bashō
Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror. View quote
Michael Johns
The society of ]]organizations\\ is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society. View quote
Peter Drucker
When he wins the bet, I tell Griggs that it will take me a lifetime to save up two trillion dollars and he tells me that he's only giving me seventy years. (Melina Marchetta)
Books! Real books were Joneny's delight. Heavy, cumbersome, difficult to store, they were the bane of most scholars. Joneny found them entrancing. He didn't care what was in them. Any book today was so old that each word glittered to him like the facet of a lost gem. The whole conception of a book was so at odds with this compressed, crowded, breakneck era that he was put into ecstasy by the simple heft of the paper. His own collection, some seventy volumes, was considered a pretentious luxury by everyone at the University. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254. View quote
Alice Sebold
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 to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years. View quote
Harold Brodkey
I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old. View quote
Laurence Housman