Middle Quote by Judith Martin

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 know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70 70 is the new 50 and…

— Joan Collins

Some people reach the age of sixty before others.

— 1st Viscount Hood Samuel Hood

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty,” they’d joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the…

— Melina Marchetta

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

— Ellen Goodman

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

— Victor Hugo

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

— Alice Walker

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

— Anonymous

To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic.

— Quentin S. Crisp

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