Top 500 Age Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

452. “You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.”

— Cheryl Strayed

453. “At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jog I joggle.”

— Ogden Nash

454. “This is a hurried age we’re living in. If you’ve got anything to say, say it quickly, get to the point and stop, and give the other man a chance to talk.”

— Dale Carnegie

455. “What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.”

— Brigitte Bardot

456. “People do not retire. They are retired by others.”

— Duke Ellington

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

— Voltaire

458. “All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.”

— Sri Aurobindo

459. “We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages than we have been human. Our identity is a dream. We are process, not reality.”

— Loren Eiseley

460. “I am poor – obscure – just eighteen years of age – with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.”

— Katherine Mansfield

461. “If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the “bourgeois” under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource.”

— Peter F. Drucker

462. “Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.”

— Walter Bagehot

463. “Don’t you see? I’m not the spirit of any age. I’m at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!”

— Anne Rice

464. “What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.”

— Octavio Paz

465. “Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.”

— Henry Ford

466. “In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.”

— Fernando Pessoa

467. “You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.”

— Haruki Murakami

468. “It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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469. “I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn’t something I’m very good at.”

— Nick Hornby

470. “Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.”

— Ezra Taft Benson

471. “When I was 16, I got ‘Jamon, Jamon.’ Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.”

— Penelope Cruz

472. “Young people in general – and young women in particular – need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.”

— Thomas Sowell

473. “You do a period of go-karting until you’re at the age of qualifying for a ride in a ‘school-kart,’ then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.”

— Mario Andretti

474. “I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.”

— Eva Braun

475. “We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.”

— Carl Sagan

476. “Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all – every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.”

— Bella Abzug

477. “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age.”

— Dylan Thomas

478. “Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses – young loving.”

— Toni Morrison

479. “How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.”

— Ovid

480. “Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder – no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.”

— Candace Bushnell

481. “This is the age of oddities let loose.”

— Lord Byron

482. “Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.”

— Walt Whitman

483. “What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

484. “Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”

— Anne Bradstreet

485. “After age twelve, birthdays should be as private as hernia surgery.”

— Erma Bombeck

486. “Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.”

— Jacqueline Bisset

487. “When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.”

— Brian Clough

488. “If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.”

— Jimmy Buffett

489. “Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”

— Emily Dickinson

490. “A patriot is a fool in ev’ry age.”

— Alexander Pope

491. “Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added ’em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years.”

— Bill Hicks

492. “I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.”

— Jonathan Edwards

493. “In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race – never quite sane in the night.”

— Mark Twain

494. “Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.”

— Honoré de Balzac

495. “I’ve learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn’t seem such an alien place to be.”

— David Bowie

496. “As you get older, you don’t get wiser. You get irritable.”

— Doris Lessing

497. “Dreams age faster than dreamers.”

— Stephen King

498. “Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.”

— Thomas Jefferson

499. “Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.”

— George MacDonald

500. “Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.”

— Alfred Tennyson