Age quotes

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

How young can you die of old age?

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.