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

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

A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles.

- Mark Zupan

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

- Larry Niven

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

- Laurence Housman

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.

- Kelly Ripa

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

- Jean Anouilh

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

- Helen Hayes

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

Being seventy is not a sin.

- Golda Meir

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

- Anne Stevenson

Despite the fact that he's been dead for over seventy years and his prose considered purple and overwrought by many, H.P. Lovecraft's work is still widely read and has remained influential for generations.

- Ellen Datlow

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.

- David Cassidy

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

- David Cassidy

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

The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'

- Bill Buford

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.

- Bjork

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

- Al Lewis