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.

- Salvador Dali

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.

- Ogden Nash

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

- H. L. Mencken

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

- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

How young can you die of old age?

- Steven Wright

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.

- Katharine Hepburn

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

- Judy Garland

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

- Aphra Behn

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

- Dale Carnegie

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

- James Joyce

Age merely shows what children we remain.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

- Douglas MacArthur

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

- Stephen Fry

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.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

- Erma Bombeck

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

- Voltaire

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.

- Margaret Mead

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

- Clint Eastwood

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

- Barbara de Angelis