Quotes about Age

"To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am."
-- Bernard Baruch

"Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."
-- Goethe

"Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages."
-- Mark Twain

"Youth has no age."
-- Pablo Picasso

"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

"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."
-- Truman Capote

"The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody."
-- Victor Hugo