Top 500 Age Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.”

— Ann Landers

2. “Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.”

— Albert Einstein

3. “The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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4. “Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.”

— C.G. Jung

5. “I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.”

— Warren Buffett

6. “In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.”

— Donald Miller

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7. “If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.”

— George Bernard Shaw

8. “I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

9. “If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.”

— Pablo Picasso

10. “I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.”

— Warren Buffett

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11. “Success is good at any age, but the sooner you find it, the longer you will enjoy it.”

— Napoleon Hill

12. “At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass.”

— Catherine Deneuve

13. “Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.”

— George Bernard Shaw

14. “One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age.”

— Warren Buffett

15. “It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.”

— Marianne Williamson

16. “With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”

— Oscar Wilde

17. “Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.”

— B.R. Ambedkar

18. “Live your life and forget your age.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

19. “Youth has no age.”

— Pablo Picasso

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20. “Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age.”

— Warren Buffett

21. “The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.”

— C.G. Jung

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22. “Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

23. “I’m like a fine wine. I get better with age. The best is yet to come.”

— Richelle Mead

24. “Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.”

— Max Lucado

25. “Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.”

— D.L. Moody

26. “Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.”

— Walt Whitman

27. “Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

28. “On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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29. “I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

30. “All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.”

— Ovid

31. “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

32. “For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.”

— Benjamin Franklin

33. “The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

34. “There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 11.”

— Dave Barry

35. “Act your age, not your shoe size.”

— Prince

36. “Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.”

— John Fowles

37. “Carry on. Things will work out. If you keep trying and praying and working, things will work out. They always do. If you want to die at an early age, dwell on the negative. Accentuate the positive, and you’ll be around for a while.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

38. “It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”

— Joseph Conrad

39. “The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.”

— Corrie ten Boom

40. “The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.”

— Maria Montessori

41. “The golden age is before us, not behind us.”

— William Shakespeare

42. “Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.”

— Haruki Murakami

43. “Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

44. “Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

45. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

— Mark Twain

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46. “Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.”

— Mark Twain

47. “Everyone has their own story and that’s something I hope for everyone to learn at a young enough age. Just because something is right for someone else doesn’t make it right for you. It’s cooler to be yourself.”

— Hayley Williams

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48. “Age doesn’t matter, unless you’re cheese.”

— Billie Burke

49. “Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”

— Ray Bradbury

50. “The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.”

— Napoleon