#seventy

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke. ↗

— Tim Vine

#always #because #condense #confidence #getting

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

#camel #dog #eighty #fifty #forty

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#forty #forty years #hopeful #more #old

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

#seven #seventeen #seventy #shakespeare #beauty

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

— Sandra Lee

#credit #fresh #percent #plus #ready-made