Three Score And Ten Quotes

#1. Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.

Stella Benson

#2. We are held back by too much caution. We are timid about venturing. We are not bold enough. And so we die before we reach middle age, although we will not be lowered into the ground until we pass three score and ten.

Og Mandino

#3. How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light

Mira Grant

#4. No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are "living springs of water, and three-score and ten palms."

John Brown

#5. For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are told, every word in it has three score and ten "toptypsical" meanings - an exaggeration, of course, but an important reminder to readers who like their fiction definite.

Philip Kitcher

#6. So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

James Joyce

#7. The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#8. You have to dance unencumbered. There's no other way to move. The idea of dance is freedom. It is not exclusiveness, it's inclusiveness.

Judith Jamison

#9. Yes. Tonight's the night, Sofia. He

Bella Forrest

#10. Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

Alice Childress

#11. If our school ever performed a play about the French Revolution, she could play the guillotine.

Robin Benway

#12. love you, vampire." His face grew serious and he stroked her cheek with his thumb. "I love you, little witch.

Darling Adams

#13. Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

Judy Collins

#14. When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.

Cory Booker

#15. There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. We're just not cut out for all this media circus crap.
But then, you already knew that.

James Patterson

#17. Three score and, and ten has always been something that I never thought I'd make. So when I made it, I wanted to celebrate it and I did.

Lindsay Fox

#18. I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things.

Jason Kilar

#19. But if you plot revenge against an evildoer, you are harming yourself: Not because the thought may come back to injure you, which is superstition, but because negative thinking reinforces the source of negativity. Darkness adds to darkness.

Deepak Chopra

#20. animals are strictly dry, they sinless live and swiftly die, but sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men, survive for three-score years and ten.

Robert Traver

#21. Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#22. Apparently, fate was intent on making this a teaching moment. The lessons? You never become immune to new pain, you don't get credit for old pain and it ain't up to you to decide when you've had your share of it.

Christine Bell

#23. The difference between a debater and a polemicist is that unlike debaters, who try to seek a common ground, a polemicist intends to establish the truth of a controversial point of view while refuting the opposing point of view - there is no room for compromise.

Henrik O. Lunde

#24. Take a look at anyone's life. Take a look at your own. In the long fold catastrophe that makes up your three-score years and ten you will encounter many cusp catastrophes along the way.

William Boyd