Chairs Quote by Janis Joplin

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Oh, to be seventy again!

— Georges Clemenceau

At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time…

— Mark Haddon

Don't live the same year seventy-five times and call it a life.

— Robin S

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

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

I don't want to see a 70-year-old on television.

— Cilla Black

I thought that the 40s was a tough decade, because it's when you finally figure out that you're not immortal, when you really start…

— Judith Viorst

In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Paul Dickson

I think I'm much more interested in longevity than in being the world's greatest anything.

— Jani Lane

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

— Helen Hayes