| "If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one" »Richard M. Devos |
| "Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde |
| "You can always get the truth from a politician after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency." »Joe Moore |
| "Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen." »Martin Mull |
| "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." »Muriel Spark |
| "There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "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." »Maggie Kuhn |
| "Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection." »Hfiz |
| "To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now." »Raymond Smullyan |
| "I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune." »Jerry Della Femina |
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