#seventy

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. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. ↗

— Helen Hayes

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To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#forty #forty years #hopeful #more #old

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#far #forty #forty years #hopeful #more

Every person has one particular time in his life when he is more beautiful than he is ever going to be again. For some it is at seven, for others at seventeen or seventy, and as Laura Fleischman read out loud from Shakespeare, I remember thinking that for her it was probably just then. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#seven #seventeen #seventy #shakespeare #beauty

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 turn them down. ↗

— George Eliot

#asked #being #between #decrepit #down

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women. ↗

— Teri Garr

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Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#credit #fresh #percent #plus #ready-made

I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win. ↗

— Al Lewis

#bother #i #i may not #may #me

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all. ↗