#seventy

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. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#because #bothers #century #end #how

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

#camel #dog #eighty #fifty #forty

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

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

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

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

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ↗

— Woody Allen

#percent #seventy #showing #showing up #success

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. ↗

— David Cassidy

#goes #i #kids #olds #seventy

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#difference #experience #feel #forty #french