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.

~ Frederick Buechner

Frederick Buechner Beauty Seven Seventeen Seventy Shakespeare

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

St. Jerome Friends Seventy Survive

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

~ Larry Niven

Larry Niven Seventy Human Years

Being seventy is not a sin.

~ Golda Meir

Golda Meir Seventy Sin Being

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.

~ Michael Johns

Michael Johns November Tyranny 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

Maurice Chevalier Man Seventy True

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.

~ Will Ferrell

Will Ferrell Time Seventy Think

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

~ Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes Seventy Years Between

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

~ Woody Allen

Woody Allen Success Seventy Showing Up