In 70th Birthday Work, sleep, a vodka cocktail, not much sun. – Vera Wang Fashionista’s tips for staying youthful at 70.
Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate. – Woody Allen
What I wouldn’t give to be seventy again! – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr US Supreme Court justice at 92, walking home from the court building one afternoon with Louis Brandeis as they spotted a beautiful young woman
Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn’t going to die. – Ian McShane
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. I think seventy an ideal age for a man. – Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance, Mrs. Allonby, Act 3.
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 50 is the new 40; so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point. – Joan Collins
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. – Dorothy Thompson
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. – Doris Lessing
No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year. Latin: Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere. – Marcus Tullius Cicero On Old Age, On Friendship & On Divination.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. – Maurice Chevalier
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. – Maurice Chevalier
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. – George Eliot
Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn’t matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody’s cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you’re eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That’s what is beautiful with food. – Daniel Boulud
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past…And when you are seventy, nearly all of you. – Jean Anouilh
Oh, to be seventy again. – Georges Clemenceau To friend on his 80th birthday as attractive young woman passed them by. Also attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all. – Phyllis McGinley
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can’t. – Rodney Dangerfield
Age is no issue to me. I think 50 is the new 30 and 70 is the new 50. There are no rules that say you have to dress a certain way or be a certain way. – Tina Turner