Age Quote by Agnes Repplier

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain?…

— John Dryden

The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want…

— William Maxwell

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…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

— M. Emmet Walsh

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

— Anonymous

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

— Philip Levine

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow…

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Seventy is beautiful for me. I am truly, at last, an elder.

— John Kani

The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

— Paul Dickson

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The great comfort of turning 49 is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

— Paul Dickson