What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

At seventy-seven it is time to be earnest.
- Samuel Johnson

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

Being seventy is not a sin.
- Golda Meir

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
- Jean Anouilh

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
- Phyllis McGinley

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 offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.
- Mark Twain

Oh, to be seventy again.
- Georges Clemenceau

On my seventieth birthday I felt as if I were standing on a mountain height, at whose foot the ocean of eternity was audibly rushing; while before me, life with its deserts and flower-gardens, its sunny days and its stormy days, spread out green, wild, and beautiful.
- Heinrich Zschokke