Breathtaking Quote by William Maxwell

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

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

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

— John Kani

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

— Anne Stevenson

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

— Philip Levine

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

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

— Anonymous

At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— Kirk Douglas

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

I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are…

— Harrison Ford