Age Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an…

— Mark Twain

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

If age imparted wisdom, there wouldn't be any old fools.

— Anonymous

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

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

— John Updike

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else…I will…

— Mark Twain

Old age makes us wiser and more foolish

— Russyb

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

— Johannes Tauler