#seventy

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

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. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#better #gall #seventy #than

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

#been #bull #cow #feeding #industry

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

#always #american #get #given #hope

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 dying as on a battlefield. ↗

— St. Jerome

#battlefield #being #dead #dying #engaged

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit. ↗

— Mike Rutherford

#easily #hard #i #i can #i write

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 club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#again #because #being #club #desired

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#fall #god #often #return #rise

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ↗

— Woody Allen

#percent #seventy #showing #showing up #success