Top 500 Age Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”

— Charles Lamb

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

— Nick Hornby

453. “When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.”

— Mark Twain

454. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.”

— Umberto Eco

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

— George MacDonald

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

457. “Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.”

— Terry Pratchett

458. “People don’t die of old age, they die of diseases that accompany old age, and they are preventable.”

— Deepak Chopra

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

— Brian Clough

460. “The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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

— Lord Byron

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Alfred Tennyson

464. “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

465. “Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.”

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

466. “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

467. “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

468. “Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.”

— Rick Warren

469. “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

470. “Age isn’t important until you run out of it.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

471. “Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn’t life’s business to reward merit, why should it be life’s business to give us warm comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?”

— Julian Barnes

472. “After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

473. “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

474. “I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty.”

— Madonna

475. “The latter part of a wise person’s life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.”

— Jonathan Swift

476. “We are the heirs of the ages.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

477. “When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

— John Keats

478. “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

479. “Old age is life’s parody.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

480. “You have the power to reverse your age.”

— Deepak Chopra

481. “There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.”

— Terence McKenna

482. “Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”

— Groucho Marx

483. “At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.”

— Gloria Steinem

484. “Age is never so old as youth would measure it.”

— Jack London

485. “Don’t follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.”

— John Piper

486. “A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.”

— William Wordsworth

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

— Doris Lessing

488. “It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.”

— L. Frank Baum

489. “Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age...”

— H. P. Blavatsky

490. “We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.”

— Thomas Paine

491. “We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.”

— William O. Douglas

492. “You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.”

— Mitch Albom

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

— Emily Dickinson

494. “The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.”

— Ezra Pound

495. “Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.”

— Stephen R. Covey

496. “A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.”

— Michael Scott

497. “I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.”

— Ben Barnes

498. “I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

499. “A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.”

— Baltasar Gracián

500. “At 68 I’m every age I ever was. I always think of that. I’m not just 68. I’m also 55 and 21 and three. Oh especially three.”

— George Carlin