Age Quote by Anonymous

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and…

— St. Jerome

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

— John Kani

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

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

— Paul Dickson

When you're 84, a 70-year-old is still pretty young.

— Christian Horner

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

— Oscar Wilde

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