Best twenties & seventies Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.”

Years Firsts Humans Stills Two Facts Dies Born Air Creatures Eternal England Twenties Britain Ireland Seventies Foreigners Being Irish Ireland And The Irish

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.”

World Stills Two Might Left Wish Victory Twenties Seven Glad Seventies

Author:Lucy Stone

“We are shocked and saddened by Bob Casale's passing. He not only was integral in DEVO's sound, he worked over twenty years at Mutato, collaborating with me on sixty or seventy films and television shows, not to mention countless commercials and many video games. Bob was instrumental in creating the sound of projects as varied as Rugrats and Wes Anderson's films. He was a great friend. I will miss him greatly.”

“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.”

Men Age Time Dog Twenties Aging Thirty Fifty Forty Lions Sixty Seventies Eighty Apes Serpent Camels Peacock

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.”

“With vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like they had to fill them up. They were like those Fuji apples from Japan. They look like perfect, super-gigantic versions of American apples.”

People Looks Two Felt Sides Perfect Minutes Twenties Versions Apples Japan Sixty Seventies Eighty Cds Vinyl Twenty Two

Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“I think there's an audience for The Wombles at almost all levels. We thought it was going to be confined to people in their late twenties, early thirties, who remembered it from before - they were maybe 10 or 12 in the Seventies when it was happening.”

People Thinking Levels Audience Late Happenings Twenties Remembered Seventies Confined Late Twenties

Author:Mike Batt

“The United States wanted to send its trained rebel groups to Syria to fight ISIS. Out of twenty-five hundred rebels they had trained, only seventy accepted to go to Syria to fight ISIS. Everybody else wanted to go to Syria to fight the government. So you've got to wake up and smell the coffee. . . . The rebel groups have not fired a shot against ISIS.”

States Government Wanted Fighting United United States Five Groups Hundred Shots Wake Up Twenties Smell Accepted Coffee Rebel Syria Seventies Isis Twenty Five

Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif

“There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'”

Humans Enough Earth Song Causes Sides Chance Party Race Civilization Twenties Eight Nine Release Human Race March Seventies Extinction Refrain Bright Side Asteroids

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.”

Mind Country Moments Walks Twenties Thirty Wrestling Seventies Somewhere Else Octopus Snooker

Author:Mark Haddon

“You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde”

Long Whole Stories Age Five Wise Twenties Thirty Fifty Forty Pale Sixty Worldly Seventies Twenty Five Cigar Mellow Overwork Long Story

Book:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. So how smart did you have to be to work out that it just wasn't worth the risk?”

People Ifs World Ends Risk Lucky Smart Twenties Work Out Favors Nine Allowing Odds Fifteen Seventies Being Loved Lucky You

Author:Nick Hornby

“She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight on her chest and breathed its pungent dog breath in her face. On those days she called in sick to the IT shop where, most days, she untangled tangled networks for a song. On those days she pulled down the shades and ran dark for twelve or twenty-four or seventy-two hours, however long it took for the black dog to go on home to its dark master.”

Long Stills Two Home Faces Song Black Hours Dark Four Dog Masters Goes On Sick Weight Twenties Breaths Ran Crush Shops Chests Shade Twelve Seventies Bad Day Tangled

Author:Lev Grossman

“There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.”

People Ifs World Ends Lucky Twenties Nine Fifteen Seventies Being Loved Lucky You

Book:About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.”

Years Looks Littles White Rooms Tree Ten Spring Twenties Snow Fifty Score Hung Seventies Leaving Me Cherries Woodland Wearing White

Author:A. E. Housman

“A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a horse seventy-nine ounces, solely by the act of respiration. That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration to supply his natural warmth in that time ..., not in a free state, but in a state of combination.”

Men States Hours Natural Four Horse Twenties Seven Nine Combination Warmth Cows Organs Carbon Seventies Acid Charcoal Free State Respiration

Book:Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology

Source: Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology

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