seventy

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

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

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.

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

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.

Being seventy is not a sin.

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

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.

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.