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Age

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

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

Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. – Pope John XXIII

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. – Aldous Huxley

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. – William James

Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. – Thomas Carlyle

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get. – Elizabeth Taylor

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. – George Burns

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age. – Paulo Coelho

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. – Phyllis Diller

Youth has no age. – Pablo Picasso

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. – Bertrand Russell

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. – Bertrand Russell

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. – Alexander Hamilton

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. – Soren Kierkegaard

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age. – Billy Graham