Seventy Quotes

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

Being seventy is not a sin.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at 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.

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

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

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.

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.

And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know.

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

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 a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.

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.

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.

That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

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

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

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.

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 the world, but he know he can't.

If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

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.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.