1,058 Quotes Regarding Age


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

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

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

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

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

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

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau

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

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

If youth knew if age could.
Sigmund Freud

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.
Princess Diana