To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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.
I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.