Death Quote by St. Jerome

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

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime,…

— Lord Dunsany

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

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

— John Kani

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 seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?

— Kirk Douglas

Oh, to be seventy again!

— Georges Clemenceau

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

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

— Anne Stevenson